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Opposition creating unrest: Buddhadeb

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KOLKATA: The Opposition was desperate to stall development projects of the State government and was finding “delight in creating an atmosphere of unrest” across the State, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Thursday.

He said:

“It appears that the Opposition has little else to do than stirring up trouble. But we will not be cowed down. “In no other State have I seen the Opposition parties doing what they are doing here. When it comes to promoting the overall interests of a State, all parties elsewhere, even in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, come together. Here, it is not the case.

“But the Opposition cannot prevent us from keeping our commitments to people, who have voted us to power. We have not come to government to sleep away our term.” Mr. Bhattacharjee, who was addressing an open session of the South 24 Parganas district conference of the CPI(M), said: “I have been telling them [the Opposition] that development is not a question of the Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M). It involves the future of people. But they refuse to understand.”

On the central political situation, he said: “Our support to the Congress is not unconditional. If it does not implement policies for the betterment of the common man, we will not support it. We have been telling the Congress not to be under the delusion that because we are supporting you [at the Centre] we will not oppose those policies and legislation detrimental to the interests of people.

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