As Minister incharge General Administration Department (GAD) in 1990-91, he met the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu, to seek a plot of land in Kolkata for construction of the second Meghalaya House.
The first Left Front government was established with Jyoti Basu as the Chief Minister.
Sumon K Chakrabarti, the national affairs correspondent for CNN-IBN, said in his blog that during Basu's tenure as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the state saw continuous industrial decline.
He was closely associated with the former chief minister of West Bengal, Shri Jyoti Basu.
Basu Chatterjee | Anurag Basu | Jyoti Basu | Bratya Basu | Jyoti Prasad Saikia | Heerak Jyoti Mahanta | Rama Jyoti Vernon | Rajnarayan Basu | Kaushik Basu | Jyoti Sarup | Jyoti Mirdha | Jyoti Amge |
The Indian Students Group included future stalwarts of India and West Bengal such as Jyoti Basu, Bhupesh Gupta, Snehansu Kanta Acharya (former Attorney General of West Bengal), Feroze Gandhi, V. K. Krishna Menon and many other famous figures of Indian politics.
This centre was inaugurated by two parts: the ‘Convention Centre Complex’ was unveiled on 21 December 1996 by Paul Jozef Crutzen in presence of the then chief minister Jyoti Basu and the whole centre was opened by the then prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral on 1 July 1997.