Buddhadev Bhattacharya
| Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | |
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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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| Minister for Information and Public Relations | |
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In office 1977–1982 |
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| Constituency | Cossipur |
| Minister for Information and Cultural Affairs | |
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In office 1987–1996 |
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| Constituency | Jadavpur |
| Minister for Home Affairs | |
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In office 1996–1999 |
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| Constituency | Jadavpur |
| MLA | |
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In office 1977–1982 |
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| Preceded by | Prafulla Kanti Ghosh |
| Succeeded by | Prafulla Kanti Ghosh |
| Constituency | Cossipur |
| Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
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In office 12 January 1999 – 5 November 2000 |
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| Succeeded by | Surjya Kanta Mishra |
| Constituency | Jadavpur |
| 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
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In office 6 November 2000 – 13 May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Jyoti Basu |
| Succeeded by | Mamata Banerjee |
| MLA | |
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In office 1987 – 13 May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Sankar Gupta |
| Succeeded by | Manish Gupta |
| Constituency | Jadavpur |
| Personal details | |
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1 March 1944 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Residence | Palm Avenue, Calcutta |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta Presidency University, Kolkata |
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| As of January 27, 2007 Source: [CPI(M) official website] |
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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ( Buddhodeb Bhôṭṭacharjo; born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and was former member of the politburo 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.
Born in 1944 in north Calcutta, Bhattacharjee belongs to a family which had produced another famous son. Revolutionary poet Sukanta Bhattacharya was his father's cousin. A former student of Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya. He studied Bengali literature at the Presidency College, Kolkata, and secured his B.A degree in Bengali (Honours), later he joined the CPI(M) as a primary member. Besides taking active part in the food movement, he also supported Vietnam's cause in 1968. He was appointed state secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation, the youth wing of the CPI(M) that was later merged into the Democratic Youth Federation of India.
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