Calcutta, July 13 :    Calcutta, July 13:  CPM politburo member Biman Bose was today elected the fourth chairman of the ruling Left Front. The Front met this morning at the CPM headquarters on Alimuddin Street and elected Bose as chairman. The post had fallen vacant after Sailen Dasgupta's death. CPM state secretary Anil Biswas said his Forward Bloc counterpart, Ashok Ghosh, proposed Bose's name and all the Front's constituents gave their assent. Jyoti Basu presided over the meeting. Biswas pointed out that Bose had been a member of the Left Front committee constituted in 1977. Other members of that committee were Saroj Mukherjee, Abdullah Rasul and Jyoti Basu. 'We took only a minute to elect Bose our new chairman,' he said. Bose became a member of the undivided Communist Party in 1958 and functioned as president and vice-president of the Bengal Provincial Students' Federation, the students' wing of the undivided party. He was inducted into the CPM state committee in 1971 and was taken into the state secretariat in 1978. In 1985, he was included in the CPM's central committee. Bose joined the politburo in 1998. The new chairman told reporters that his primary job would be to strengthen the Front. 'I will try my level best to run those booth committees of the ruling Front which were set up during the elections. Though it might be difficult to run such Front committees at the grassroots level, I will work hard to run them,' he said. The first Left Front chairman was Promode Dasgupta, who was succeeded by Saroj Mukherjee. All the three previous chairmen also held the post of CPM state secretary. Bose is an exception. But Biswas said there is no rule that the Front chairman will have to be the secretary of the state CPM. Bose said he and other Front leaders will meet all Front MPs in Delhi on July 21. 'The meeting with the MPs was supposed to be held in Calcutta on Wednesday but we had to cancel it due to the death of Sailen Dasgupta. Now the meeting will be held in Delhi and our MPs will be given a guideline to oppose the anti-people policies of the Centre jointly in Parliament,' he added. The state secretariat reallocated the functions of its members. 'Sailen Dasgupta used to perform a number of important party jobs. Since he is no more, all our secretariat members have taken responsibility of the jobs looked after by Dasgupta. I have to function as editor of Marxbadi Path, a CPM mouthpiece, apart from my heavy schedule as party secretary,' Biswas said.