Kolkata/New Delhi: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu died in a Kolkata hospital on Sunday. He was 95.
"I have to give you a sad news that Jyoti babu is no longer with us," Biman Bose, chairperson of the Left Front coordination committee, announced to reporters a little around 1230 hrs.
Basu, who had suffered multi-organ failure was on a temporary pacemaker since late last night.
Basu's personal physician Dr Ajit Kumar Maity said that the veteran leader breathed his last at 1147 hrs IST at the AMRI Hospital where he was admitted with pneumonia on January one. He was put on a ventilator on January 6.
Basu is survived by son Chandan. His wife Kamal pre-deceased him four years ago. Basu was Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years from 1997 at the head of CPI-M-headed Left Front government.
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