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On BJP – CPM collaboration
The All India BJP President Venkaiah Naidu held a brief for Mr.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in an interview during the recent disturbance
before the panchayat polls in West Bengal. In reply to the reporters,
question Mr. Naidu told "Buddhadeb babu is a cultured person. But does
his writ run in the party ? Who does not know his opinion on POTA ? But
could he implement it in his state ? He is quite aware of the fact that
subversive acts are being carried on in many illegal Mardrasas, and he
wants to take stern steps in this regard." (Ananda
Bazar Patrika,
24 April, 2003)
Already in 2002 Buddhadeb roared against Madrashas and insisted on
enforcing POTA like draconian measures in West Bengal. For all such acts
he received kudos from the BJP Government at the Centre. Tathagata Roy,
the WB State chief of BJP told a television channel on 31 May that
Advani’s "close relationship" with W.B. Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattachrya had become embarrassing for the state BJP leadership.
(The Telegraph,
2 June, 2003)
Buddha calls up Advani, says sorry for attack by CPM activists on Tapan
Siddar ,Union Minister of the BJP, on 6th May,
2003. Last month too Buddhadev dialed to Advani expressing concern over
pre-Panchayat violence.
(May 7, 2003, Hindustan Times)
More than that Mr.Tapan Sikdar the very next day, from a Nursing Home
where he was admitted "praised Bhattacharja’s and CPM state leadership’s
post attack respons as well as their efforts at fixing responsibility
for that incident." Sikdar said, "I am extremely happy at Buddhababu’s
expression of concern and the way he has gone about ordering stern
measures against the culprits." Further that, "I have collected the
names of a few attackers which I shall pass on to him and (State CPM
secretary) Anil Biswas. I have no doubt that they will take proper
action…"(The Telegraph, 7 May, 2003)
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