"I don't know anything about a Padma Bhushan award. No one told me anything about it. If they have given me a Padma Bhushan award. I am rejecting it," he said in a brief statement in Bengali.
January 26, 2022On the questions of Singur and Nandigram, instead of apologising for them, and forgetting that they were instrumental for the CPM's defeat in 2011, the new narrative was that Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's actions were essentially sound, though there were some mistakes. They even forgot to mention that they were not mistakes but blunders.
May 30, 2021CPIM has requested Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's medical team to allow him to go to Brigade. The doctors, though, haven't yet given the nod.
February 26, 2021Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was discharged at around 11:30 in the morning. He was escorted back to his residence by his wife Mira Bhattacharya.
December 15, 2020Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 76, was put on mechanical ventilator support at the critical care unit of the private hospital where he was admitted on Wednesday.
December 10, 2020Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who was the chief minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011, has been suffering from breathing other old age-related ailments.
December 9, 2020CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that question of formation of any front will come up only after poll results are out. He lashed out both the BJP and TMC saying “BJP is to be fought nationally and TMC in Bengal.” The CPI-M on Thursday also formed a new state secretariat in which former chief …
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May 25, 2018Chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that one political party has hired a contract (supari) killer to kill her. The party has also paid money to the contract killer in advance for the assignment. While giving an interview to a Bengali news channel, the chief minister said: “One political party has hired a ‘suparikiller’ to kill …
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May 12, 2018A small modest building detached from the rest of the structures that dot the sprawling campus at the North Bengal University (NBU) by all means catches the eye of any visitor. However, people often tend to look the other way as they approach the two-storey set-up that houses the Akshaya Kumar Maitreya Heritage Museum, a …
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April 25, 2018West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wished Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on his 74th birth anniversary. The Chief Minister said, “Birthday greetings to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former Chief Minister of West Bengal”. Birthday greetings to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former Chief Minister of West Bengal — Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) March 1, 2018 Born in 1944 in north-Calcutta, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee …
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