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Biman Bose will stay: Jyoti Basu

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KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu has dismissed any talk of replacing Biman Bose as chairman of the Left Front committee. He said here on Friday that the question did not arise.

"There is no question of replacing him. Who is there to replace him," Mr Basu said when newspersons pointed out that Mr. Bose had expressed his willingness to step down from the post if certain Left Front constituents so desired.

Mr. Bose, who is also Secretary of the State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), had told journalists that if the Left Front partners did not have confidence in him, the matter should be taken up at a Front committee meeting and his replacement found. He was referring to criticism of his handling the Nandigram issue. A Minister and senior leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party recently suggested that a committee be set up under the chairmanship of the State secretary of the All-India Forward Bloc, Ashok Ghosh, to initiate the social and political process to restore normality at Nandigram.

Regrets attack

There were reports of sporadic incidents of violence from Nandigram on the day and the situation was discussed at a meeting with senior State officials convened by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

On the Calcutta High Court directive to the State Government to take steps to restore normality at Nandigram, Mr. Basu said the Government would act in accordance with the order. He regretted the recent attack there on a group of intellectuals.

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