Anil Basu ( bn, অনিল বসু) (born 7 November 1946) was an Indian politician and a former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He joined the Students Wing of the CPI(M) in 1966 during the Food Movement. He joined the Chinsurah Local Committee of the CPI(M) in 1967 and became the DYFI Zonal Secretary in 1970. Local Committee Secretary in 1971. Member of Zonal Committee in 1974. Zonal Committee Secretary in 1981 and admitted into the District Committee. Elected for the first time to the 8th Lok Sabha in 1984 from Arambagh constituency in West Bengal. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He was directly involved in the

Sainbari murder The Sainbari Murder occurred in 1970 in the house of Sain family in Bardhaman in West Bengal in India, where several people were killed. Incident The newspaper incident report puts the date of the incident occurred on 17 March 1970. The Sain ...

. He was caught making derogatory remarks about Mamata Banerjee and for this he was severely criticised by his own party men. In 2012, he was expelled from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on charge of nepotism, anti-party activities & breach of discipline.

Highest victory margin

In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, he won the Arambagh seat by a margin of 592,502 votes, which was the highest ever victory margin in Lok Saba polls in the country till it was broken by

Pritam Munde Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde (born 17 February 1983) is a doctor and Indian politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Beed. In 2014, she won with a margin of 6,96,321 votes - the highest ever in India's electoral hist ...

of the BJP with a new record margin of 696,321 votes from

Beed Beed (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is a city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India. It is the administrative headquarters in Beed district. History Beed is a historical city of possibly medieval origin. Its early history is ob ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

.But as It was In the bypoll, so it did not count as the highest margin. BJP leader CR Patil won from Navsari seat of Gujarat by 6.89 lakh votes

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1946 births Living people Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal People from Hooghly district India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 1984–1989 India MPs 1989–1991 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from West Bengal {{CPIndiaMarxist-politician-stub