Jyoti basu biography of william hill

1940: Basu returned to India and joined the Communist Party of India, which was then banned by the British rulers. His shocked parents tried to dissuade him but to no avail.

Basu’s first assignment in the CPI was to arrange safe houses for the party’s underground leaders, and he soon became the main link between the leadership and its overground sympathisers.

Jyoti Basu: Biography, Family, Early days in Politics ...

Married Basanti Ghosh.

1942: Basu’s wife died.

1941: Given responsibility by the party of organising railway workers. Appointed secretary of the Bengal-Assam Railway.

1943: Elected provincial committee member (PCO) of CPI, his first official position in the party.

1946: Helped organise Gandhiji’s peace march in Kolkata following widespread communal rioting in the city.

Elected to the (undivided) Bengal assembly from the Railway constituency.

1948: Married Kamal Basu

1951: Appointed president of the editorial board of CPI mouthpiece Swadhinata.

1953: Elected to the CPI’s West Bengal state