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January 17, 2010July 8, 1914

Jyoti Basuon his life and politics


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Kolkata: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, died here on Sunday, 17Jan 2010. He was a man of strong views and never hesitated to speak

his mind. Here are some of his comments on his life and politics:


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On childhood

'My mother came from an upper

middle-class family, they were

well-to-do landowners. My father,

,

relatively lower middle-classbackground.'

'I was 10 years old. Talk of

revolutionaries and the fight forindependence was in the air.'


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In London

'I was initiated to international politicsin London. Entire Europe was restive.

Fascist Mussolini had wrested power in

Italy.

'We formed the `London Majlis' and I

was its first secretary. The idea was to

generate public opinion for the cause of

Indian independence and collect

subscriptions.'


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On return to India

' .

attach importance to this. I knew there was along and difficult political agenda ahead.

Anyway, I got married.'


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Political life

'It never occurred to me that I would

one day become an MLA, but the

par y oug o erw se. a oabide by its directives.

'My very first election as a

candidate gave me a taste of what

bourgeoisie elections were allabout. It was baptism by fire. But

all's well that ends well.'


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On undivided CPI

' .

Between September 1948 andJanuary 1949, I worked openly in

trade unions, maintaining the

communication links with our

leadership in hiding.'


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Emergency rule

'(Indira) Gandhi was scared. Her

authoritarianism knew no limits.Thus she chose the option which all

dictators faced with a critical

situation coupled with the fear of

losing power usually do: she opted

to usurp all the rights of the people.'


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Left Front government

'It was exactly at 10.30 a.m. onJune 21, 1977, that the first

Left Front ministry was sworn

in... Land reforms were our

topmost priority.'


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On Sino-Indian war

India and China went to

war over the border

dispute in 1962. Thereactionary forces led by

the Congress cried for

war and inflamed

passions. We said that

talks were the only way;the reactionaries called

us `anti-nationals' for

this.'


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'If the centre had been

keen and serious

about a political

On Operation Blue star

settlement to thePunjab problem, then

this operation could

have been avoided.'


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On Babri Masjid razing

On December 6

1992, barbarians

demolishedBabri Masjid. We

stood

dishonoured in

front of the

entire world.'

Prepared by: Mahendra Joshi


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