Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Difference between revisions

{{short description|7th Chief Minister of West Bengal}}

| name              = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

| image            = The Chief Minister of West Bengal Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing at the 52nd National Development Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 9, 2006.jpg

| caption          = Bhattacharjee addressing the National Development Council in 2006

| relations        = [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (uncle)

| website          =

| office6           = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|West Bengal]]

| term_start7       = 1977

| term_end7         = 1982

| constituency7     = [[Cossipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Cossipur]]

| predecessor7     = [[Prafulla Kanti Ghosh]]

| successor7       = [[Prafulla Kanti Ghosh]]

| term_start2        = 12 January 1999

| term_end2          = 5 November 2000<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web|author=Business Standard |url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-to-take-over-as-bengal-cmfriday-/135376/on |title=Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday |publisher=Business-standard.com |date=2011-05-16 |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref>

| predecessor2      = [[Jyoti Basu]] <br /> (March - November 1967; February 1969 - March 1970)

| term_start1        = 6 November 2000

| term_end1          = 13 May 2011<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web|author=Business Standard |url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-to-take-over-as-bengal-cmfriday-/135376/on |title=Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday |publisher=Business-standard.com |date=2011-05-16 |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref>

| constituency6     = [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]]

| term_start6       = 10 April 1987

| term_end6         = 13 May 2011

| predecessor6       = [[Ashok Mitra]]<ref>[[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] (Wikipedia)</ref>

| successor6         = [[Manish Gupta (politician)|Manish Gupta]]

| office8 = [[Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Member of CPI(M) Polit Bureau]]

| term_start8 = 2002

| term_end8 = 2015

'''Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee''' (born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and a former member of the [[Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was the [[List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister of West Bengal]] from 2000 to 2011. He was the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]] constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary]] of his own government, [[Manish Gupta (politician)|Manish Gupta]],<ref name="hindustantimes1">[http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx "Buddhadeb loses at Jadavpur constituency"], ''Hindustan Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516081846/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx |date=16 May 2011 }}</ref>  by 16,684 votes in the [[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|2011 West Bengal election]].<ref name="hindustantimes1"/> He is the second [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|West Bengal Chief Minister]] to lose an election from his own constituency, after [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]] in 1967.<ref>[http://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html "Buddhadeb loses from Jadavpore"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204060706/https://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html |date=4 December 2014 }}, ''Yahoo! News'', May 13, 2011.</ref>

Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialize West Bengal thwarted by the [[Tata Group|TATA]]'s [[Tata Motors]] leaving [[West Bengal|Bengal]] in the face of the joint protests of the [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool congress]],<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html "WB polls: Buddha has himself to blame for Left-front's loss"], ''India Today'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517045314/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html |date=17 May 2011 }}</ref> [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|Socialist Unity Centre of India]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and [[Indian National Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=India|first=One|date=December 3, 2006|title=BJP President Rajnath to visit Singur tomorrow|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2006/12/03/bjp-president-rajnath-to-visit-singur-tomorrow-1165160142.html}}</ref> the [[Singur Tata Nano controversy|land acquisition dispute]] in [[Singur]], the [[Nandigram violence|Nandigram incident]],<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms " Exit Buddhadeb, man who saw beyond ideological convictions"], ''The Economic Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005638/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms |date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> and the Netai incident.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/CPM-pays-for-Netai--suffers-losses-in-Junglemahal/790753/ " CPM pays for Netai, suffers losses in Junglemahal"], ''Indian Express'', May 14, 2011.</ref>