Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Chief Minister,West Bengal
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Place & Date of Birth :
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Kolkata, 1st March, 1944
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Parents :
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Shri Nepal Bhattacharjee & Smt. Lila Bhattacharjee
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Marital Status :
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Married, One daughter
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Education :
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Passed Higher Secondary Examination in Humanities
from Sailendra Sarkar Vidyalaya, Kolkata in 1961.
Passed B.A. Hons. Examination in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1964.
Joined NCC during School days and continued as a cadet of the NCC (Naval Wing) during college days.
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Special Interest :
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Literature
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Publications :
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Collection of poems and plays.
Literary criticism on celebrated Bengali poet Jibanananda Das and noted Bengali novelist Manik Bandyopadhyay.
A drama based on Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'.
Translated into Bengali Vladimir Mayakovsky's poems, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor' and 'Clandestine in Chile'.
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Party :
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1966 : Joined Communist Party of India(Marxist).
1968 : Founder Secretary, West Bengal State Committee of Democratic Youth Federation.
1972 : Member, CPI(M) West bengal State Committee (12th State Conference).
1982 : Member, CPI(M) West Bengal State Secretariat.
1984 : Permanent Invitee to CPI(M) Central Committee.
1985 : Member, CPI(M) Central Committee (12th Party Congress).
2000 : Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau.
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Constituency :
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Got elected in 1977 from Cossipore Assembly Constituency.
Elected from Jadavpur Assembly Constituency for the five consecutive terms since 1987.
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