Basu akasarudzwa kuti ave nhengo yeBengal Legislative Assembly muna 1946, achikwikwidza mudunhu reRailway. Akashanda seMutungamiri weVapikisi kwenguva yakareba apo Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy aive Gurukota reWest Bengal. Jyoti Basu akatungamira mhirizhonga dzinoverengeka kurwisa Hurumende yeHurumende uye akawana mukurumbira unoyemurika semunhu wezvematongerwo enyika kunyanya pakati pevadzidzi nevechidiki. Kunze kwekuronga mafambiro evashandi veRailway, akatungamira kufamba kwevadzidzisi vachida kukwidzwa kwemubhadharo. Apo Communist Party of India yakapatsanuka muna 1964, Basu akava mumwe wevatatu vapfumbamwe vePolitiburo yeCommunist Party of India (Marxist). Muna 1967 na1969, Basu akava Mutevedzeri Mukuru weWest Bengal muUnited Front hurumende.
Gore ra1964