Buddhadeb Chidambaram

• Take care of your own business, Buddhadeb tells Chidambaram

  Responding to Home Minister P Chidambaram's attack on the Left Front government in West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today held him 'fully responsible' for unrest in Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh and asked him 'to take care of his own business'."Chidambaram described us as the worst-governed state, but he should give an account of ho...

• Buddhadeb writes to Chidambaram on 'Trinamool-Maoist nexus'

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today wrote to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on suspected Maoists sheltering in Trinamool Congress run relief camps. After two inmates of a Trinamool-run relief camp were arrested by joint security forces on Monday for alleged links with Maoists, Bhattacharjee had issued a late night statem...

• Chidambaram to meet Buddhadeb on January 19

  The meeting between Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will take place on Jan 19.On Friday, January 7, the day of the Netai massacre in which seven people were killed, the Home Minister had expressed concern and asked the Chief Minister to come to Delhi at the earliest.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherje...

• Can come to Delhi in only third week of Jan: Buddhadeb to Chidambaram

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has responded to Home Minister P Chidambaram's request to come to Delhi to discuss the killings in Lalgarh.Buddhadeb has told Chidambaram that he can go to Delhi only in the third week of January, that is, not before January 24. On Friday, the day of the Netai massacre in which seven people were ki...

• Lalgarh violence: Chidambaram summons Buddhadeb to Delhi

  Home Minister P Chidambaram has called West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to Delhi a day after at least eight people were shot dead and 17 others injured in Lalgarh on Friday.The Trinamool Congress blamed armed CPM squads, but the state Home Secretary called it a political clash. (Read: 8 killed in Lalgarh violence)The Home Minister ...

• 8 killed in Lalgarh, blame game begins

  At least 8 people were shot dead in Netai village in Lalgarh and another 15 injured in what's being seen as the latest political clash between the CPM and the Trinamool. The Trinamool called it a genocide and blamed armed CPM squads but the state Home Secretary called it a political clash .News of the Lalgarh deaths completely dominated a processio...

• Buddhadeb's letter to Home Minister Chidambaram

  After receiving two letters from Home Minister P Chidambaram on December 30, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya replied to the Home Minister saying he will be unable to travel to Delhi during the period suggested by the Home Minister (January 3 to January 7).Here's the note by Buddhadeb Bhattacharya:

• Home Minister Chidambaram's letter to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

  As a part of the ongoing war that's being fought publicly and bitterly between the Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal's Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chidambaram on December 30, wrote two letters to Buddhadeb, addressing his concerns and inviting him to talks in Delhi.Here's the second letter:

• Home Minister P Chidambaram's letter to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

  As a part of the ongoing war that's being fought publicly and bitterly between the Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal's Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chidambaram on December 30, wrote to Buddhadeb, addressing his concerns and inviting him to talks in Delhi.Here's the letter:

• New letters frontline Chidambaram-Buddhadeb war

  "I cannot accept the deliberate leakage of letters to the press...I am unable to accept your attitude towards Left Front workers....you have chosen not to mention the Trinamool-Maoist links in your letters." Three angry lines from the latest letter sent by the West Bengal Chief Minister to Home Minister P Chidambaram.  And with that note, it's...

• Chidambaram invites Buddhadeb to discuss situation in Bengal

  A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee slammed his assessment of the law and order situation in the state, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday invited him for a meeting to discuss the Maoist issue.Chidambaram sent two letters to Bhattacharjee, as a reply to the Chief Minister's December 28 communication. "Both letters ha...

• Buddhadeb's letter to Home Minister Chidambaram

  After Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya being sharply critical of law and order in the state, as well as the deaths of political activists, the West Bengal CM has written back, alleging Chidambaram's assessment of his government is "surprising and far from impartial." (Read: Battlelines of commun...

• Battlelines of communication: Buddhadeb's angry reply

  He had promised "a fitting reply" and he seems to have delivered it. West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has written to the Home Minister, alleging that "your assessment of the Bengal situation is surprising and not impartial." (Read the letter)Mr Bhattacharya has also said that Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Con...

• Chidambaram's assessment far from impartial: Buddhadeb

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today rejected the assessment of his state by Home Minister P Chidambaram, calling it 'surprising and far from impartial.'  In a letter sent to Bhattacharjee, Chidambaram had virtually ordered him to disband armed cadres of the CPM, which he referred to as "Harmad Vahini" - a term which was co...

• Buddhadeb faxes Chidambaram 'fitting reply'

  The battle lines of communication between the West Bengal government and the Centre remain wide open.Within 24 hours of receiving P Chidambaram's letter, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya faxed his reply to the Home Minister today, along with another copy dispatched via speed post.Mr Bhattachrya also took the moral high ground by refusing to spell out the con...