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| Jyoti Basu dead at 95 | | | Agencies
Kolkata, Jan 17: Jyoti Basu, one of India's tallest political leaders whose influence extended far beyond his home state of West Bengal that he ruled for a record 23 years, died here on Sunday. He was 95. He would have become India's prime minister in 1996 had not his Marxist-Communist party ruled against his taking charge of a loose Centre-Left alliance.
Basu died after a 16-day battle in the AMRI Hospital. He is survived by his businessman son Chandan. His wife Kamal had predeceased him in 2003.
Basu, who had been ailing for months but remained agile mentally as he kept in touch with national affairs, was admitted to the hospital on January 1 following chest congestion and infection. He was moved to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) on January 2 and put on ventilator on January 6 after the respiratory problem became acute.
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