Communist icon Jyoti Basu, who almost became India's PM, is dead | ummid.com

Communist icon Jyoti Basu, who almost became India's PM, is dead ummid.com
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 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.