LDALL BASU 3 LST

LDALL BASU 3 LST
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat was among other
leaders who visited the hospital.

A pall of gloom descended on the city as soon as news
of the Marxist patriarch's death spread with people turning up
in hordes at the hospital to pay their last respects to the
departed leader.
The road leading to the hospital at Salt Lake was
closed to traffic by the police who were deployed in large
numbers.
As a young barrister who embraced Communism, Basu
showed remarkable pragmatism in a dogmatic party that
prevented him from becoming Prime Minister at the height of
coalition politics.
He got a chance to become Prime Minister of the United
Front government in 1996 but his party declined the offer.
Basu had described his party's decision of not
accepting the prime ministership as a 'historic blunder',
which was termed by the CPI(M) as his 'personal view'.
Paying glowing tributes to Basu, Prime Minister of
India Manmohan Singh said he was a powerful regional voice in
the national political scene and had proved to be one of the
most ablest administrators and politicians of independent
India.
Describing Basu as a great leader, senior Bharatiya
Janata Party leader L K Advani said,"though our ideologies
were different, still, going by his greatness, I respect him
and pay my tributes".
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said Basu was
the "first and last chapter of the Left Front government".
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee described
him as a "people's leader". PTI AMR
AHM


The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this
message are intended for the exclusive
use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged
information. If you are not the intended
recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please
notify the sender immediately and destroy
all copies of this message and any attachments contained in it.