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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (; born 1 March 1944) is an Indian communist politician and a former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who served as the 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. In a political career over 5 decades, he became one of the senior leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) during his regime.

Bhattacharjee was known for his relatively open policies regarding business, in contrast with the financial policies of CPI(M) being primarily anti-capitalist. But trying to do so, Bhattacharjee in his tenure as CM faced strong land acquisition protests and allegations about violence against the protesters. This led Bhattacharjee to lose the election in 2011 resulting the fall of Left Front's 34 years of rule in West Bengal, the world's longest democratically elected communist government. Provided by Wikipedia