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: 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
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