Mamata Invites Buddhadeb

• Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee slams Mamata Banerjee for 'inviting' Barack Obama to West Bengal

  In a veiled attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "encouraging imperialism", CPI(M) veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said it was unprecedented that the state government was eager to invite a US president next year.

• Mamata Banerjee speaks to Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee after three years

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today spoke to her Marxist predecessor and arch political rival Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee for the first time in over three years and invited him to Kolkata Film Festival beginning tomorrow.

• Mamata Banerjee to take charge as West Bengal Chief Minister today

  Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal today, marking a change of guard that will see the end of 34 years of uninterrupted rule by CPI(M)-led Left Front.The swearing-in ceremony will take place in the presence of 3200 invitees - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defen...

• Buddhadeb to attend Mamata's swearing-in ceremony

  Outgoing West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has accepted his successor Mamata Bannerjee's invitation to attend her swearing-in ceremony in Kolkata tomorrow.Mamata had sent senior Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee to Mr Bhattacharjee's residence to deliver the invitation letter. The Left front has already confirmed that its represen...

• 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 not invited to Railways' event in Kolkata

  The President laid the foundation stone for the Metro Rail project from Joka to BBD Bagh in Kolkata on Wednesday but the state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was not present there. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has not included him in the guest list but included his Transport Minister."I received no invitation," the Chief Minister said...