In fact not only Basu, all commies deserve Bharat Ratna. For the past several years they have been successfully cheating the entire people of two states in India with their double talks and opportunistic politics
It is in precisely these two states that the percentage of BPL (as acknowledged by the UN in it's Human development report 2007 with it's 1 dollar a day benchmark) population is the lowest in India. And Kerala leads the states ranked second in a host of parameters (Literacy, primary health care for the rural areas, absence of child labour, minimum wages implementation, land reforms, social egalitarianism, decentralisation of power to local bodies....) by a margin that is unlikely to be bridged by any other state in a long, long time to come.
How very odd to 'find' that the people of Kerala and Bengal have been 'cheated' for 'several years' !!!!