Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

• Born on March 1, 1944 at Kolkata
• Passed out from Sailendra Sarkar Vidyalaya, Kolkata and B.A. Hons in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata
• Joined Party in 1966
• Secretary West Bengal State Committee of Democratic Youth Federation – June 1968
• Member, West Bengal State Committee, CPI(M) – 1971, Member Secretariat 1982
• Permanent Invitee to Central Committee – 1984
• Member Central Committee in 1985; Member Polit Bureau – 2000
• Minister West Bengal Cabinet as Minister of Information and Public Relations – 1977; minister of Information and Cultural Affairs etc. 1987; Minister of Home-- 1996; Deputy Chief Minister – 1999; Chief Minister – 2000
• Was an important functionary of the Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the late sixties. Translated famous poem of Le Duc Tho composed in 1975, just after the liberation of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City); visited Vietnam on the occasion of the birth centenary of Ho Chi Minh; visited China in 1982 as companion of Promode Dasgupta.
• Married, one daughter.
• Currently member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) and Chief Minister, West Bengal