Jyoti Basu is Dead Is a Rumor

Today News of Death of Jyoti Basu is surfacing on internet and twitter. But the News that Jyoti Basu is Dead is a rumor. He is not dead and is admitted to AMRI Hospital. Basu’s Condition Is Very Critical. He is on a ventilator.

He was admitted last Friday a severe chest infection. He was suffering from slight pneumonia to a Calcutta hospital after feeling unwell for the last two days in the ICU.

Jyoti Basu, 95, is a politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of Bengal from 1977 to 2000, was India’s longest-serving Chief Minister. He was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the time of the party’s founding in 1964 until 2008.