Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was born on 1 March 1944. He is an Indian Communist politician and a former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee belongs to a family which had produced another famous son. Revolutionary poet Sukanta Bhattacharya was his father's cousin. A former student of Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya, Bhattacharjee had his ancestral house in Bangladesh.