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Trinamool MLAs to boycott session

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KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress leadership announced here on Friday a “boycott” of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as well as of the House for the remainder of the on-going Budget session in the West Bengal Assembly.

This is in protest against what they called the “arrogant attitude” of the Chief Minister evident during his address to the House on Thursday. His remarks “were insulting to the peasants of Singur and Nandigram,” Leader of the Opposition Partha Chatterjee said.

The “boycott” of the Chief Minister will continue till he “withdraws his remarks and ensures that the culprits responsible for the violence at Nandigram are brought to book”, Mr. Chatterjee told The Hindu.

Mr. Bhattacharjee had, while replying to discussions on the demand for budgetary grants for the Home Department, urged the Opposition leaders to “put their fears behind them” and come forward for talks with the State Govt on their reservations over the State’s industrialisation policies. All Trinamool Congress MLAs will boycott programmes the Chief Minister attends and “have been debarred from even contacting him,” Mr. Chatterjee said.

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