When Jyoti Basu acceded to the chief minister's position in West Bengal, after Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, one could have hardly imagined that this gentleman politician will trigger awe among all politicians and general public for the years to come. The communist regime in West Bengal was greatly led by him, and his doctrines have kept the Left Front well-knit and alive.Irrespective of political colour, Basu was a pragmatic adviser to his contemporaries. It would not be an overstatement to call him “The Last of the Marxists”, and confer him the status at par with Mao, Che Guevara, Simon Bolivar or Fidel Castro.
