Advani against dismissing Govt

Reacting to situation in Nandigram, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday said there was a constitutional breakdown...

Reacting to situation in Nandigram, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday said there was a constitutional breakdown in West Bengal and the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Government should be dismissed even as Leader of Opposition L K Advani said dismissal was not desirable. “It will not be apt to call for the use of Article 356 in West Bengal,” Advani told reporters on a special plane while travelling from New Delhi to Bangalore. “Just because of one phrase (of Governor), one cannot jump to a conclusion,” he added.

TC taking Maoists’ help: Karat

New Delhi: The Central leadership of CPM on Monday backed the Buddhadeb Government on the Nandigram issue, even as it accused the Trinamool Congress of taking the help of Maoists to create trouble in the area. “Trinamool Congress has taken the help of Maoists to consolidate their hold in the area,” CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here after a two-day meeting of party politburo. Insisting that normalcy will be soon restored in Nandigram, he said the Trinamool Congress, which “can’t win the confidence of people democratically,” had sought the help of Maoists.

State-sponsored massacre: Dasmunsi

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi termed the recent incidents in Nandigram as “state-sponsored massacre”, an “organised crime” and an attempt to revive the “Stalinist cult” in the state. The minister said that it was not the collective game plan of the Left Front, but only of the CPI(M), which ignored the sensible advice of the CPI, the RSP and the Forward Bloc.