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Aged West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has handed away at the age of 80
Aged West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee died on Thursday (Aug 8) morning at his south Kolkata discipline, CPI(M) deliver secretary Mohd Salim said.
He become once tormented by outdated age-connected ailments. Bhattacharjee become once 80 and is survived by his wife Mira and daughter Suchetana. The CPI(M) chief become once the manager minister of the deliver from 2000 to 2011.
The dilapidated CPI(M) chief took over as the manager minister of West Bengal in 2000 from occasion senior Jyoti Basu.
Bhattacharya lost the 2011 assembly election to Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front’s 34-twelve months-lengthy rule within the deliver came to an discontinuance that twelve months.
His tenure become once marked by agitations over the acquisition of land for industries led by recent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Bhattacharya stepped down from the CPI(M) politburo and central committee in 2015 and gave up membership of the occasion’s deliver secretariat in 2018.
Over the outdated few years, he basically stayed a ways from public programmes and remained confined to his two-room authorities residence at Palm Avenue in south Kolkata.
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