West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has delivered what he said was “a fitting reply” to Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s salvo at him. Dismissing outright the Mr Chidam-baram’s contention in the letter sent to him in which he virtually ordered the CM to disband the armed cadres of the CPI(M), and called them “harmad vahini”, the CM, replied that Mr Chidambaram’s observations were “surprising and far from impartial”.

In his bid to lob the ball into the Opposition’s court, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has in his reply to Union home minister P. Chidambaram pointed out that he had asked all parties in Bengal to work together to prevent political clashes but the Trinamul Congress alone “remains non-cooperative”. He

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee lambasted chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday terming his reply letter to Union home minister P. Chidambaram as nothing but “casual” and “a show of his arrogance.” She also accused Mr Bhattacharjee of “hushing up the truth” and claimed that it was none other than “the chief minister who has himself built more than 250 harmad camps in the Jangalmahal belt, misusing administrative power.”

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday sent a reply to Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter, which has sparked a political controversy in the state’s politics.

Brushing aside the speculation of the break-up of alliance between the Congress and the Trinamul Congress before the 2011 Assembly elections in West Bengal, veteran Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee once again asserted that West Bengal cannot progress without industrialisation.

In a bid to send a positive message to the Muslims before the Assembly polls, the Congress is going to elect Abu Hena as the new Congress Legislature Party leader on January 2. He will replace Manas Bhunia, who was elected the state Congress president in July and since then had been occupying both offices.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday ruled out a joint parliamentary investigation (JPC) into alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation, but appealed to the Opposition to let Parliament function smoothly. “What is JPC? Is it coming from heaven? I do not find any logic or justification of setting up of a JPC,” he

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said prices of onions have come down from the sky-high levels seen earlier this week and the situation will be in control soon, as the government is taking

The West Bengal government on Saturday said that it had not yet received Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s letter to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. A day after Mr Bhattacharjee denied any knowledge of any such letter, state chief secretary Samar Ghosh also gave similar reaction when asked if Mr Chidambaram’s letter