Karat -- who served as the CPI(M) general secretary between 2005 and 2015 -- further said he did not consider veteran leader Jyoti Basu declining the prime minister's post in 1996 as a reason ...

CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu, well into his 90s ... Perhaps the last of the quintessential 'Bhadralok' politician of the state whose trademark crisp white dhoti-kurta and Kohlapuri chappal matched ...

Speaking at the inauguration of the first phase of the Jyoti Basu Centre for Social Studies and Research, Karat accused these forces of seeking to establish "Hindutva as the state's official ...