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Mar 01, 1944 Kolkata, West Bengal, India 80 years old
Indian politician
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About Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and was former member of the consultancy of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.
- He was the MLA of Jadavpur constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former Chief Secretary of his own government, Manish Gupta, by 16,684 votes in the 2011 West Bengal election.
- He is the second West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from his own constituency, after Prafulla Chandra Sen in 1967.Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialise West Bengal thwarted by the TATA's Tata Motors leaving Bengal in the face of relentless opposition by Trinamool congress, the land acquisition dispute in Singur, the Nandigram incident, and the Netai incident.
