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  • Health condition of Covid-positive Buddhadeb Bhattacharya ‘stable’ 

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: The health condition of former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who tested positive for COVID-19, is “stable”, health department sources said on Wednesday.

    His wife Mira Bhattacharya, who also contracted the virus and is undergoing treatment at a city hospital, is also doing fine, they said.

    The 77-year-old former CM, who is in home isolation and also suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), needs to go to hospital for other clinical examinations, the sources said.

    “But, he is not willing to go.

    Last night, his oxygen saturation slipped below 90; it improved after he was administered external support.

    We have urged him to go to hospital and get the tests done,” one of the sources said.

    Both Bhattacharya and his wife tested positive on Tuesday evening.

  • Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattarcharya tests Covid positive

    By ANI
    KOLKATA: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and is under home isolation.

    Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee wished a speedy recovery to 77-year-old Bhattacharya.

    “Wishing a speedy recovery to respected former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya,” he tweeted.

    Trinamool Congress MLA from Barrackpore, Raj Chakrabarty also wished good health to the former CM and tweeted, “Praying for the good health and speedy recovery of you and your family. Get well soon sir.”

    Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, Bhattacharya was West Bengal Chief Minister from 2000 to 2011. 

  • TMC, BJP brought West Bengal to ruins: Former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya came down heavily on the ruling TMC and the BJP on Monday, accusing them of ruining the state and its secular credentials.

    Bhattacharya, 76, said it is only the Left-Congress-ISF alliance that can bring the state out of the darkness.

    Noting that “the silence of a crematorium” prevails in Singur and Nandigram, he alleged that under the present dispensation, the state has gone backwards in agriculture, while no industry was established during its 10-year-tenure.

    Anti-land acquisition movements led by the Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee at Singur and Nandigram in 2007-08 had jolted the mighty Left Front government and laid the foundation of the TMC rule in West Bengal.

    “The conspirators of the devious play of that period are now divided in two groups engaged in mudslinging against each other,” Bhattacharya said.

    Young people of Bengal have lost employment opportunities and the meritorious and skilled left for other states owing to the situation, the CPI(M) veteran said in a statement.

    “Corruption, extortion and syndicate-raj have made the lives of the state’s people unbearable,” he said, adding, security and respect of women are endangered due to antisocial activities.

    “Religious harmony, which used to be West Bengal’s pride, has been poisoned,” the ailing former CM claimed.

    Bhattacharya said the TMC’s autocratic rule on one hand and the BJP’s politics of divide and religious polarisation on the other have brought the state to ruins.

  • Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya not to attend Brigade rally due to ill health

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister and CPM veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharya will not be attending the party’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground on Sunday owing to ill health, sources said.

    The Left-Congress-ISF alliance will kick-off its campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal at the Brigade Parade Ground, an iconic political platform in the city with a capacity to accomodate lakhs of people.

    Bhattacharya, 76, expressed anguish at not being able to attend the public meeting.

    “My comrades are fighting on the ground, and I have to stay back at home as per the advice of doctors. It is unthinkable that such a massive rally is being held at the Brigade Parade Ground, and I cannot attend it. I wish the rally a grand success,” he said in a statement.

    According to party sources, Bhattacharya is likely to send a written message for the rally.

    During the last such event at the same venue in 2019, Bhattacharya stayed for a brief period but could not address the gathering due to poor health.

    CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury and ISF’s Abbas Siddiqui will be the main speakers at Sundays rally.

    Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav will also be present, besides state leaders of the Congress and the Left parties.

    The RJD is a part of the Left-Congress alliance in West Bengal.

    For the first time, once-bitter rivals Congress and the Left Front would be holding a joint rally in Kolkata.