Kolkata: Former West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was the second and the last CM of the Left regime in West Bengal, died at his residence at Palm Avenue in South Kolkata on August 8. He was 80. His daughter Suchetana Bhattacharjee confirmed the demise of her father and said that he started falling sick after having breakfast, shortly after which he passed away. Besides his daughter, he is survived by his wife Mira Bhattacharjee.
He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011, succeeding the nonagenarian India Marxist and the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal, late Jyoti Basu. The 2011 West Bengal Assembly election was his last appearance in the electoral battle.
After that, he restricted himself to internal party activities besides getting more engrossed in his literary preoccupations, a mark of this former Chief Minister. In 2022, the Union government recommended his name for Padma Bhushan, which he refused.
