Chitta Basu (politician)

[2] In his obituary, The Indian Express described Basu as belonging to the rare tribe of politicians who did politics for a cause and practiced what they preached.

[3] In 1957, Basu was first elected to the West Bengal state legislative assembly from Barasat of the then undivided 24 Parganas district.

[citation needed] Basu died of a cardiac arrest on the Howrah-bound Danapur Express between Madhupur and Jasidih railway stations in Bihar in the early morning of 5 October 1997.

He was returning to Calcutta after attending an anti-Lalu Prasad Yadav rally organised by a 17-party left and democratic front in Patna.

[3] Travelling alone in an AC first class coupe, he complained of abdominal pain to a railway attendant soon after the train left Patna.