Jyoti Basu, veteran Marxist leader and one of the tallest figures in the country's political life, died of septicaemia due to pneumonia that led to multi-organ failure, here on Sunday. He was 95 and is survived by his son and three grandchildren.
After battling for life in a private hospital over the past 17 days, he passed away at 11.47 a.m.
His body was taken to Peace Haven, a funeral parlour, via the residence of his son, Chandan Bose, and Indira Bhavan in Salt Lake where Mr. Basu lived in the later phase of his life.
Mr. Basu was the chief architect of the Left Front in West Bengal, and he repeatedly said that it was to "the conscious, struggling people" of the State that credit went for
making it possible for the Left Front to win seven successive Assembly elections. Being elected for a five-year term seven times in succession was "not only an achievement without precedent in India," he noted matter-of-factly, "but also in the history of parliamentary democracy in the world."
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