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: A Maoist leader has sent an open letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing doubts over peace talks if the joint forces operations werent withdrawn. The letter signed by one Akaash, who claims to be CPI (M) spokesperson, said that Mamata Banerjee is now singing the same tune as her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. He accused Trinamool Congress of resorting to violence and extortion in the Junglemahal...
04:21 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Serampore: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday said a 'dangerous' political atmosphere was prevailing in the state with the ruling Trinamool Congress attacking activists and supporters of not only the Left parties, but also those of its own ally, Congress. "The Trinamool Congress is such a party that it is not only attacking Left workers, but even its own ally, Congress. The Congress is suffering the attacks...
08:25 PM, Sep 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister had asked the chief of American retail chain Walmart in 1995 to 'convince' then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee about allowing FDI in retail sector, which the latter opposed, a top CPI(M) leader said on Sunday. "The Prime Minister had asked the Walmart chief to go and convince the West Bengal Chief Minister on allowing FDI in retail trade. Bhattacharjee had then explained the...
03:29 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Kolkata: Marginalised in the West Bengal Assembly elections and criticised by allies for the Left Front's defeat, former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said his party, the CPI(M) will make a turnaround. "We must bring change in state politics. We are prepared to fight against all odds. It will be absolutely wrong, if the new government thinks it will be able to dominate us. We will make a turnaround,"...
08:06 PM, Jul 12, 2011
Kolkata: The Left Front will organise a protest rally and a sit-in against the hike in petrol product prices here on July 12 in which former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose would participate. A Left release on Saturday said Bhattacharjee and other front leaders would join the sit-in and protest demonstration near the Ayakar Bhavan (Income-Tax building) here that day. Bhattacharjee put in a token...
06:51 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Monday step into her new look chamber at the Writers' Buildings. The walls have been painted in off-white colour with compact fluorescent lights adorning the room. Flowerpots give a touch of green in her room. The chairs are wooden and without cushions as per the chief minister's wishes, secretariat sources said. The work was done under direct supervision of PWD secretary...
11:21 PM, May 29, 2011
Kolkata: For the first time in 34 years, the Left Front on Friday elected Suryakanta Mishra as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. Announcing Mishra's name at a press conference here, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said "our MLAs will have to learn to play the role of the Opposition." Mishra, a CPM MLA from Narayangarh in West Midnapore district since 1991, was health minister in the...
03:25 PM, May 27, 2011
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If electoral deliverance and degree of popular support are taken to be the litmus test of performance in the context of democratic politics, there are ...
04:24 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: As the winds of change blow in West Bengal, it is time for the Left Front to introspect. CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat who has presided over a one way slide in their electoral fortunes since taking over in 2005, barring the 2006 victories, will face some tough questions. While a silent wave for the call for change or the party's misadventures over land are being largely blamed...
09:45 PM, May 14, 2011
Kolkata: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is the second sitting chief minister in West Bengal after late Prafulla Chandra Sen to bow out of office after accepting electoral defeat in the state. Sen, a veteran Congressman and chief minister from July 8, 1962 to March 15, 1967, was defeated by his one-time ministerial colleague Ajay Mukherjee of Bangla Congress at Arambagh assembly constituency in the fourth general election in 1967 by only 881...
04:53 PM, May 14, 2011
Kolkata: "Humbly accepting" the people's verdict in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Left Front on Friday said it had failed to gauge the mood to the call for 'paribartan' given by the Trinamool Congress. "We did not understand that the people had accepted the slogan of paribartan (change)," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told a joint press conference by Front leaders at the CPI(M) headquarters here. "We have grassroot...
09:28 PM, May 13, 2011
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