Question

Who became the Chief Minister of West Bengal after Jyoti Basu?
A) Mamta Banerjee
B) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
C) Bipin Chand Pal
D) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: Jyoti Basu was an Indian official and an administrator who filled in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal state starting from 1977 till the year 2000. He was one of the fellow benefactors of the Communist Party of India and an individual from the Political Bureau of the gathering since its origin in 1964 till 2008.

Complete Answer:
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was said to be handpicked by Jyotirindra Basu. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was born on March first, 1944. He is an Indian legislator and a previous individual from the Politburo of the Communist Party of India. He was on the seat of the Chief Minister of West Bengal from the year 2000 to 2011. He was the MLA of Jadavpur voting demographic for a very long time until 13 May 2011, when he was truly vanquished by the previous Chief Secretary of his administration, Manish Gupta.

Occasions during his residency as Chief Minister included endeavors to industrialize West Bengal foiled by the Tata Motors leaving Bengal even with the joint scheme of the Trinamool Congress, Socialist Unity Center of India, Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress, the land securing contest in Singur, the Nandigram episode, and the Netai occurrence.

Buddhadeb also studied the language Bengali at the Presidency College in Kolkata, and successfully secured his B.A. degree in Bengali [Honors degree], later he joined the CPI as a primary member. Besides taking an active part in the food movement, he also supported Vietnam's cause in 1968. Later on, he was also appointed for the state secretary position of the Democratic Youth Federation, in the youth wing of that, which was later mixed into the Democratic Youth Federation of India.

Thus, option (B) is correct.

Note:
However, he took the biggest risk of his political career by embarking upon the industrialization drive to change the face of West Bengal, which had agriculture as the primary source of income. He got distracted from the standard doctrine and invited foreign and national capital to set up factories in West Bengal. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's Government went under hefty analysis for police activity against demonstrators in Nandigram, India.