Blaming the Left Front government’s wrong policies for the emergence of the Maoist problem in the state, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday asked the rebels to abjure violence and come to the negotiation table. Addressing an election rally at Burrabazar in Bandwan police station area of Purulia district for Congress

Ridiculing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s appeal to the people to vote for the formation of the eighth Left Front government in the state, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said why would the people give him one more chance. “They have already ruled for 35 years. Why will the people elect them again.

Launching a scathing attack against the Left Front government, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said that West Bengal was the “worst governed” state. Mr Chidambaram, who was in the state to campaign for Congress candidates, blamed the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government for all the ills plaguing the state particularly for the “extremely bad” law and order and “precarious” financial situation.

After rising to the ruling BJP’s Assembly election manifesto last year, the humble goat in Bihar is now set to enrich the state’s rural economy with its nutritious milk.

Two people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes during the second phase of panchayat polls in Bihar on Sunday.

Describing West Bengal as the country’s worst governed state, union home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday claimed peace will be restored once Congress-Trinamool Congress government is formed after the Assembly elections. “It is among the poorest governed state in the country.

With Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee sitting by his side, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday sang her pariborton (change) tune. In a clear bid to send a positive message about a strong alliance to the workers of the two parties as well as the people, Dr Singh said: “I have come to appeal to you to vote for the

Predicting a comfortable win for the Left Front in the West Bengal Assembly polls, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the new government would continue with its policies of industrialisation along with land distribution and development of agriculture.

Putting behind the bitterness over his expulsion from the CPI(M), at least for now, former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee plans to campaign for the party in the Assembly elections as he still feels he is a Marxist.

Heavyweight CPI(M) leader and former MP Anil Basu’s most offensive and obscene comments about Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has sparked a political storm in the state. Not only the Opposition but even the civil society at large has condemned it unequivocally.