New Delhi: The CPM Politburo will meet in New Delhi on Thursday to introspect over its election losses in Kerala and West Bengal. These are the states where the party has faced its worst-ever electoral performance. Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya who missed the last Politburo meet in Hyderabad, will skip this meeting as well. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said that the party will huddle and decide on...
02:59 PM, Sep 29, 2011
The CPM Politburo, has dismissed Buddhadeb Bhattacharya quitting the Politburo as 'speculation'. ...
11:36 AM, May 16, 2011
Kolkata: The CPI(M) state leadership was on Saturday busy finalising the list of candidates for the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, which would be officially announced on Sunday. CPI(M) stalwarts, including Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, party state secretary Biman Bose, besides senior members like Suryakanta Mishra, Nirupam Sen, Gautam Deb and others attended the two-day state Committee meeting here on Saturday to shape to the CPI(M) candidates' list. The state...
12:10 PM, Mar 13, 2011
Malda: Holding the Congress-led UPA government for price rise of essential commodities, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the CPI-M will hold a protest meeting in Delhi when the Parliament session begins later this month. "Protest will be held in Delhi when the Parliament opens. We have to tell the government that we will not allow this," he told a public rally here. Describing price rise as...
07:01 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Thursday lodged a fresh complaint with the Centre against Trinamool Congress, accusing it of having a "nexus" with Maoists. In a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee cited the arrest of two persons from a Trinamool Congress-run camp in Midnapore who allegedly had Maoist link. "The chief minister sent a letter to the Union Home Minister during the day on...
04:10 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Lalgarh: Police raids were on in Netai village near the Maoist hub in West Bengal on Saturday a day after seven people were shot dead and 12 wounded allegedly by Marxist-backed assailants. Groups of villagers were seen huddled together, mourning the deaths, while anxiety was writ large on the faces of those whose family members lay critically injured in hospitals. Around noon, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee went round the...
03:38 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal is on the edge after political violence spills out of control with the deaths of seven Trinamool workers. Home Minister P Chidambaram has summoned West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Governor MK Narayanan to Delhi. Narayanan is rushing to the capital to brief Chidambaram, as political violence is spilling out of control in the state leaving 11 people dead in the last 48 hours. The battle...
06:54 AM, Jan 08, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has courted another controversy by remarking on child labour. "We can't ask them to stop work because that will affect their families' source of income." The West Bengal Chief Minister is courting controversy with a statement saying it is not practical to ask children to stop working - this four years after child labour was officially banned across India. The best that can...
07:19 AM, Jan 02, 2011
New Delhi: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee slammed Home Minister P Chidambaram's assessment of the law and order situation in the state as "far from an impartial overview", the latter on Thursday invited him for a meet in Delhi. Chidambaram dispatched two letters on Thursday addressing Chatterjee, as a reply to the Chief Minister's December 28 communication. "Both letters have been faxed as well as sent...
01:47 PM, Dec 30, 2010
Kolkata: Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday said he had received Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's letter which asked the state government to disarm CPI-M cadres in the state and will reply to it. "I have received the letter. I will give a reply," he told reporters at the state secretariat when asked about Chidambaram's letter. Chidambaram had sent the letter on December 24 in which he criticised the state's...
02:25 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Kolkata: The letter by home minister P Chidambaram to Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has become the latest political flashpoint in Bengal's heated political cauldron. With Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee keeping the pressure up on her ally - the Congress - with her tirade against price rise and alleged misuse of joint forces by the Left Front government, Chidambaram's scathing letter has Buddhadeb's government in a bind. Trinamool's...
12:20 PM, Dec 27, 2010
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