Jyoti Basu unable to vote for the first time

CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu, who has been unwell of late, today slipped and fell in the toilet in his Indira Bhavan residence here sustaining minor injuries and could not cast his vote for the first time.      

The 95-year-old former chief minister suffered injuries in his left leg after a fall in the toilet, his personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh told PTI.      

He said Basu was examined by his doctor who said that there was no cause for worry.      

Ghosh said Basu, who was chief minister of the state for 23 years, could not cast his vote because his physical condition did not permit it.      

Basu was hospitalised last September after he injured his forehead also from a fall in the toilet.      

Subsequently, medical tests had revealed clots in his brain which required surgery. But the doctors did not go for surgery in view of his advanced age and physical condition.