Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee escapes unhurt in accident

September 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Thursday mourned the death of his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a copter crash.

August 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee cancelled his trip to New Delhi for the internal security conference of chief ministers convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday due to ill-health. The chief minister was down with fever for the last few days and was still very weak, said an official in his secretariat.

July 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday met police and administrative officials of Purulia, one of the three Maoist-hit districts in the state, to discuss the law and order situation and ways to speed up development. "We're now focusing on development in terms of increasing the total irrigation area in Purulia district.

June 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has clarified on Saturday that he has been advised by the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to ban the Maoists in the state. Further, Buddhadeb said that he would give a serious thought to the Home Minister's advice in view of the expanding influence of hundreds of Maoists, who in the past one-week have chased away police and killed government supporters in and around the Lalgarh in West Bengal.

June 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday faced the ire of his Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislators, as also of those from other ruling Left Front (LF) partners, who accused the administration of failing to prevent the attacks on them by opposition party workers since the Lok Sabha polls. "We are being attacked though we are in the government.

June 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal Government has convened a second round of an all-party meeting in Kolkata on Sunday evening over cyclone relief issue. The meet to be presided over the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is meant to expedite relief and restoration works in Aila-hit districts in the state.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Amid speculation about his offering to resign, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday met Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu but refused to speak to the media. The chief minister went to the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings in the morning and came out of it in the evening only, and left for Basu's house in the satellite Salt Lake township.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday accused the opposition Trinamool Congress of playing with the sentiments of the Muslims to strengthen their vote bank in the state. 'We've been noticing that Trinamool Congress is mentioning the word 'Muslim' everywhere.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday said the Left parties did not consider Congress party "untouchable". But they were working to form a Third Front government at the Centre and might join it if they could play any meaningful role in it.

April 26th, 2009 RAIGUNJ - West Bengal Chief Minister and Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) stalwart Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday expressed confidence on Third Front forming a government at the Centre. Bhattacharjee also said the Front would keep 'communal forces' like Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at bay.

April 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - It was his dream that Tata Motors small car Nano would roll out from the Singur facility, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here Saturday. 'It was my dream that Nano will roll out from Singur and that dream is not completely shattered,' Bhattacharjee said while releasing a book, 'Creating Employment Generation and Opportunity', by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate for Lok Sabha election from South Kolkata Robin Deb.

March 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - Both the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will lose partners after the Lok Sabha polls leading to the consolidation of the Third Front, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said Sunday. 'The efforts to cobble up a non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and non-Congress alternative will gain a more distinct shape in the post poll situation.

March 29th, 2009 SILIGURI - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday said the possibility of the Left supporting a Congress-led government at the centre after the coming Lok Sabha elections cannot be ruled out, but that would depend on the post-election scenario. 'Now our attempt is to form a non-Congress and non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre,' Bhattacharjee told reporters after a party conference in northern West Bengal's Siliguri town.

March 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - Claiming that nearly 10 million jobs have been lost in the country due to the global slowdown, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has flayed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for neglecting the interests of the common man in its response to the economic crisis. 'The centre's policy is not enough for the common people.

March 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Friday said that neither the Congress nor the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be able to cobble up a majority to return to power at the centre. 'The BJP with its Hindutva agenda has lost its appeal and everybody (United Progressive Alliance partners) is estranged from the Congress,' Bhattacharjee said in an interview to a private regional news channel here.