 He said, “I see before my eyes a vast industrial complex, with which I was associated for nearly 40 years crumbling to dust.” IISCO was taken over by the government in 1972.It was a somewhat sad end for a man who had led the company to its pinnacle of glory.During those troubled times, he also went to Nadia-nagar Shri Basu Acharya who advised him to take to active communism.