Kolkata: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday strongly criticised the Mamata Banerjee government, saying that it "failed to deliver" goods in all spheres during its rule last one year. "The state is lagging behind in all areas with no news of fresh investment, no clear industrial policy, misrule in panchayat system and deteriorating law and order," Bhattacharjee said at a rally at Dum Dum during campaign for...
01:40 AM, May 14, 2012
Kolkata: Known as a pragmatic Marxist, former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday sang the old tune, saying capitalism would ultimately give way to socialism. "Capitalism will give way to socialism. It will create social ownership and usher in the end of class differences," Bhattacharjee, a CPI(M) politburo member, said at a function here to mark the 142nd birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin. He, however, did not gave...
12:29 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Kolkata: Former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is likely to step down from the CPM politburo, according to sources on Sunday. The veteran Marxist has purportedly written a letter to party general secretary Prakash Karat conveying his wish to abdicate from the CPM's highest decision-making body. Bhattacharjee has cited illness as the reason behind his unwillingness to continue in the politburo. Bhattacharjee is also not keen to attend the upcoming CPM...
10:21 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress-led government was suffering from a sense of political intolerance. "They cannot tolerate political parties like the CPI-M and that is why they are divesting powers of the CPI-M-controlled zilla parishads to district magistrates," he told a Bengali news channel. He claimed that the TMC government was attacking newspapers and TV channels which is "another instance of...
10:48 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Kolkata: In a show of strength, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday led a massive procession of Trinamool Congress supporters in an apparent answer to a similar show by her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in the city four days ago. Though Trinamool Congress said the procession was undertaken to protest against a "slander campaign and conspiracy by CPI(M) in collusion with some TV channels" to undermine the state government,...
12:56 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday led a huge protest rally in Jadavpur against the alleged ransacking of a Communist Party of India-Marxist office by Trinamool Congress backed attackers. Hours before Bhattacharjee's roadshow, the Trinamool Congress announced that party chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead two road rallies in the area on Thursday and on Saturday. "To counter the malicious campaign and conspiracies of...
10:56 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: In an apparent reference to the CPI(M)'s accusation that her government lacked a clear policy in various sectors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked the party not to indulge in negative criticism and warned it against resorting to bandhs. "Those who are jealous take to negative criticism. I ask them to be positive. We are being accused of not having any vision. Those who themselves have...
11:24 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Bangalore: A 30-ft Buddhist stupa made of 400,000 flowers, including 150,000 roses, to convey the message of peace will be the star attraction at the Bangalore flower show beginning on Friday as part of Republic Day celebrations. In front of the floral 34-ft radius stupa built at the Glass House in the famed Lalbagh will stand a statue of Buddha decorated with 75,000 roses and other flowers. For the first...
04:42 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Kolkata: Lashing out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for taking a soft approach towards the ongoing incidents of assault on principals by students, CPM politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said such incidents were bound to increase. "Every day there are incidents of college principals being beaten up by students. And the most shocking thing is the response from the Writers' Building (state secretariat). If there is such...
12:27 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Harinavi: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday accused the Mamata Banerjee government of impairing development in the state, saying it failed to woo new businesses and ensure minimum support price for paddy. "The government has taken the state backward in both industry and agriculture. It has not taken a single step towards industrialisation compared to what was done by us. No new industry has come up under...
08:30 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Tamluk: Claiming that anarchy prevailed in West Bengal in the seven-month rule of the Mamata Banerjee government, former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday said that industrialists have turned away their faces from new investment and farmers are not getting right price for their produce. "Anarchy prevails in every field, be it industry, agriculture, electricity or education. Not a single new investment has come during the seventh-month tenure as industrialists...
06:14 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Kolkata: As the Congress in West Bengal on Tuesday threatened to intensify its agitation over the proposed renaming of Indira Bhavan at Salt Lake, Trinamool Congress Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged the Congress was colluding with the CPI(M) to attack her party. "In West Bengal, the CPI(M) and the Congress are working together. Our partymen are being attacked at places like Keshpur and Garbeta," Banerjee said...
05:50 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Buddhism has a special role to play in the modern world because unlike many other religious traditions, Buddhism uniquely propounds the concept of independence which accords closely with the fundamental notions of modern science, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Sunday. Elaborating on the importance of Buddhism as tool for promoting peace, he said, "The 20th century was a century of war and violence, now we...
10:38 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday spoke to her Marxist predecessor and arch political rival Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee for the first time in over three years and invited him to Kolkata Film Festival beginning on Thursday. Mamata offered the olive branch to Bhattacherjee, a film buff, by personally ringing him up and inviting him to the 17th Kolkata film festival which will be inaugurated by Bollywood superstar Shahrukh...
01:46 AM, Nov 10, 2011
CHENNAI: People have been billing it as the fastest Sunday that India saw, in a while. For Chennais Formula1 fans, a usually lazy Sunday morning couldnt have passed more quickly, considering the flag-off time was set at 3 pm. The first Indian Grand Prix might have set the asphalt at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida alight, with thousands of cars clogging the Delhi-Noida Highway, but the roads in...
08:38 AM, Oct 31, 2011
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