JYOTI BASU has breathed his last at 11.47 am on 17.01.10 (sunday) at AMRI Hospital, salt lake city. The fighter in him fought an unequal battle for the last 17 days and his tortured body ultimately gave up by refusing to take the most needed dialysis that could have saved him today.
Though I had never been attracted to the left politics in this state, jyoti basu as a person was always a great source of attraction and admiration for me. I would always like to remember him as a statesman who had a vision for the upliftment of the poor and marginalised people of west bengal and not as a leader with political leanings towards the left. I have always strongly felt that he was a person much above the local political scenario and would always be in my memory as the visionary who was a father figure of this state and was instrumental in developing this state during his five times tenure as the chief minister of this state from 1977 onwards.
His projection as a national leader in 1996 and the subsequent opportunity to become the prime minister of this country was inevitable. As a true party follower he refused to accept the same, though in later life he described this as a historic blunder not in respect to his personal gains but in consideration to the fate of indian politics, which I sincerely hope the left leadership have come to understand in the subsequent years.
A gulliver among the lilliputs, his absence will now be irreplacable and I sincerely hope that the left political leaders will recognise this and try to follow his ideas and ideals to recover lost ground in the minds of the common masses.
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