Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is an Indian politician who is also a littérateur, scholiast, columnist, poet, and orator. In 2002, he was appointed as a member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and he held the position till 2015. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya became the chief minister of West Bengal in 2000. For consecutive twenty-four years, Buddhadeb was elected as a member of the legislative assembly from the Jadavpur constituency of West Bengal. He lost the general elections of ... Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, died aged 80 at his home in Kolkata on Thursday morning. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, veteran Left leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister, died at his south Kolkata residence this morning. He was 80. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya , the last CPI (M) chief minister of West Bengal, died at 80. He was known for his progressive industrial policies, but faced the Tata Nano debacle that ended CPI (M)'s rule in 2011.