

Soon after the announcement, the opposition parties in West Bengal including Trinamool Congress, Socialist Unity Centre of India, and Indian National Congress strongly opposed his decisions along with several social activists and campaigners that stopped the project. When he was the chief minister of West Bengal, he finalized a deal with Tata Motors to set up the cheapest Nano Car manufacturing plant in West Bengal, and it was his first initiative to industrialize the state.

He lost the general elections of West Bengal from 16,684 votes in 2011 from the former chief secretary of his own cabinet, Manish Gupta, who joined Trinamool Congress.

For consecutive twenty-four years, Buddhadeb was elected as a member of the legislative assembly from the Jadavpur constituency of West Bengal. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya became the chief minister of West Bengal in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed as a member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist), and he held the position till 2015. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is an Indian politician who is also a littérateur, scholiast, columnist, poet, and orator.
