months later. In 1996, after the 1996 West Bengal election Bhattacharjee was handed over the responsibility of home and police department, owing to the old health of Chief Minister Jyoti Basu. In 1999, he was made the Deputy Chief minister Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal of West Bengal. On November 6, 2000, he was elevated to the position of Chief Minister after Basu stepped down. In 2002, he was elected to the politburo of CPI(M). Chief Minister of West Bengal Bhattacharjee was elected Chief Minister of West Bengal and was sworn in a solemn ceremony at Raj Bhawan. As Chief Minister, he lead the CPI(M)-led Left Front Left Front (West Bengal) to two successive election victory in 2001 and 2006. In 2001, Left Front secured 199 out of 294 assembly seats and in 2006, it improved the tally to 235 out of 294 seats. He started an industrialization drive in West Bengal to bring in more investment and jobs in the states. Under his government West Bengal saw investments in IT and services sector. However, he took the biggest risk of his political career by embarking upon the industrialization drive to change the face of West Bengal, which had agriculture as primary source of income. He deviated from the standard Marxist doctrine to invite foreign and national capital to set up factories in West Bengal. Notable among them was the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano, from a small hamlet near Kolkata called Singur. There were other proposals too, such as country's largest integrated steel plant in Salboni, West Midanpore district by Jindal group, and a chemical hub at Nayachar after it faced agrarian resistance in Nandigram. However, his plans backfired, and his party, along with its front partners, suffered heavy losses in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. In the 2011 state assembly election he was defeated by former Chief Secretary of his own government, and the Trinamool congress candidate Manish Gupta by 16,684 votes. He is the second West Bengal Chief Minister to lose an election from his own constituency, after Prafulla Chandra Sen in 1967.The Left Front saw a drubbing, securing just 62 seats out of 294. He resigned as Chief Minister on May 13, 2011. Singur Tata Nano controversy and Nandigram violence Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialize West Bengal thwarted by the TATA's Tata Motors leaving Bengal in the face of