Buddhadeb Lalgarh

• Lalgarh killings: Court asks Bengal govt to produce case diary

  The Calcutta High Court has admitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which the Centre supported, seeking a CBI investigation into the firing at Lalgarh in West Midnaporec district on January 7.Noting that the police had reached several hours late and an FIR was lodged about 11 hours after the firing in which seven villagers were shot dead and s...

• 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 should not have happened: Buddhadeb

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today strongly disapproved of the firing in Lalgarh, allegedly by CPI (M) cadres, saying it should not have happened and asked all political parties to exercise restraint."What happened in West Midnapore yesterday was not good. If should not have happened. Killings and bloodshed must stop otherwise...

• 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...

• West Bengal Governor hurt by Lalgarh violence

  The West Bengal Governor, M K Narayanan, condemned the Lalgarh violence which resulted in the death of eight and said it is a day of sorrow and shame for the state. Earlier the Home Minister P Chidambaram yet again wrote to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking him to "reschedule all appointments and visit Delhi immediately".Here is the statement issued b...

• Mamata slams Buddha; calls for withdrawal of forces from Lalgarh

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has called the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) "cowards" who couldn't fight her politically and were therefore using guns to terrorise people.At a massive rally in Midnapore where Buddhadeb Bhattacharya held a public rally on Saturday, Mamata announced that from Thursday, the Trinamool would take to t...

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  Buddha agrees with Centre on Maoists

  The CM's statement comes a day after the Centre banned the CPI (Maoists).

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  Anarchy in West Bengal as Maoists capture Lalgarh

  The Maoists have declared that their main target is to execute Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.