Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is an India

India

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n politician

Politician

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 and a member of the politburo

Politburo

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 of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. He was the MLA of Jadavpur

Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Jadavpur is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Jadavpur is a neighborhood in Kolkata.-Extent:...

 constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former Chief Secretary

Chief Secretary

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 of his own government, Manish Gupta

Manish Gupta (politician)

Manish Gupta is an Indian politician and the present Minister for Development & Planning in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Jadavpur constituency in the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011...

 (who previously worked under him) by a landslide 16,684 votes in the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal

State Assembly elections in India, 2011

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. He is the second West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from his own constituency, after Prafulla Chandra Sen

Prafulla Chandra Sen

Prafulla Chandra Sen was a Bengali Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal during the period 1961–1967.-Background:...

 in 1967.

Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialise West Bengal thwarted by the TATA

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 leaving Bengal

West Bengal

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 in the face of relentless opposition by Trinamool congress, the land acquisition dispute in Singur

Singur

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, the Nandigram incident

Nandigram violence

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, and the Netai incident.
Born in 1944 in north Calcutta, the chief minister belongs to a family which had produced another famous son.