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Basu, Jyoti

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Basu, Jyoti (1914- )

Indian politician, chief minister of West Bengal from 1977. He is the longest-serving chief minister of any Indian state and also the leader of the longest-running democratically elected communist government in the world.

Basu was educated in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Cambridge, and London where he met British Communist Party leaders and formed the Indian Communist Group at London. After obtaining his law degree in 1940 he returned to India and joined the Communist Party of India (CPI). Basu was elected to the Bengal legislative council in 1946 and remained a member of the legislature when the state was partitioned the following year. When the CPI split in 1964 he became a founding member of the Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPM) and held various positions in the party.



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