In the podcast interview, Sanyal said, “The first time when he (Jyoti Basu) got elected, he already had carried out the Marichjhapi massacre. He had already begun to shut down the businesses.

However, from the late sixties, they shifted towards the Left, especially under leaders like Jyoti Basu. The Left's decline ...

So bitter that Kerala's veto has defined key national moments of abdication for the CPI(M): India would have had Jyoti Basu as PM in 1997, and the UPA ties would have endured in 2008, if not for ...

Mr Chatterjee, what are the chances of Jyoti Basu becoming prime minister as a compromise candidate? This is a chance for the party to correct its historic blunder of May 1996. Mr Chatterjee ...

Has that changed over the years? I imagine it must have. The spirit of Calcutta was broken in the 1960s and the 1970s by the Left (Naxalites, trade unions, Jyoti Basu etc.) and by the time I moved ...

Anil Biswas and Shyamal Chakraborty were brought to the forefront during the Jyoti Basu era. The CPI(M) has, however, faced criticism of having gone into a shell after the 2011 defeat in the West ...