Buddhadeb Bhatacharjee

• No question of Buddha stepping down as CM: Biman Bose

  Amid reports that Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has offered to quit following the Left Front's drubbing in the civic poll, CPM State Secretary Biman Bose on Saturday said there was no question of the West Bengal Chief Minister stepping down from his post."The question does not arise. The matter has not been referred to the Central Committee. It has not be...

• Buddhadeb skips Politburo meet beginning today

  West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had skipped the Politburo after the Left's debacle in the Lok Sabha elections last year. Now, that bit of history is repeating itself after the Left's drubbing in the civic polls. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya won't be attending the two-day Politburo meeting beginning in Delhi on Saturday."He is not going ...

• Buddhadeb to skip Politburo meet?

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya will skip the two-day CPI (M) Politburo meeting in New Delhi beginning on Saturday."I am not going. I am staying here," he told reporters at the state secretariat here.Bhattacharya skipping the politburo meet follows the drubbing of the ruling Left Front in the civic elections at the hands of Trinam...

• Bengal civic polls: Mamata sweeps Kolkata, close contest in other seats

  Kolkata has given Mamata Banerjee a giant victory.  Her Trinamool Congress (TMC) has swept the Kolkata civic polls, winning 97 of the 141 seats. That's a gain of 55 seats for the TMC. The state's civic polls are the semi-final for the West Bengal elections next year.  Outside Kolkata, it's proving to be a much closer battle between the TM...

• Bengal: Post-poll Left, Congress deal?

  The counting of votes in the recently held civic polls will take place in West Bengal today.All the three major players in the fray, the Left, Trinamool Congress and Congress, have a lot at stake in the polls, seen as the semi-finals ahead of the Assembly elections next year.With the Left determined to prevent Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee from t...

• Battleground Bengal: Civic polls verdict today

  All eyes are on West Bengal today as the counting of votes in the recently held civic polls for 81 civic bodies takes place in the state. The most hard-fought contest is, of course, for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation which the Left snatched from the Trinamool in 2005.These polls are seen as the semi-finals ahead of the Assembly elections next ye...