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Nandigram: Buddhadeb against redeployment of CRPF personnel

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I have faith in police and administration to restore peace, he says

Buddhadeb stresses need to seize unlicensed firearms
Trinamool boycotts all-party meeting

Tamluk: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday expressed himself against the redeployment of the Central Reserve Police Force personnel at Nandigram.

He was addressing an all-party meeting here convened by him to check the fresh tension at Nandigram.

The Trinamool Congress and the Socialist Unity Centre of India boycotted the meeting. But, it was attended by the Congress, the Socialist Party and the representatives of Left Front parties — the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the CPI, the Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party.

Mr. Bhattacharjee said that he had full faith in the State police and the local administration to bring back peace and order in the area, according to CPI(M) leader and Tamluk MP Laxman Seth, who spoke to the media after the meeting.

Mr. Bhattacharjee left the meeting without briefing the media after a scuffle between journalists jostling for vantage positions and security personnel who were trying to cordon them off.

“Not every time”

The Opposition has been demanding the redeployment of the CRPF in view of the escalation in tension. “The CRPF was deployed in Nandigram following a particular tense situation but it could not be done every time,” Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty said.

“Mr. Bhattacharjee also noted the issue raised by both the Opposition and Left Front parties that a large number of unlicensed firearms still remain at Nandigram and Khejuri, the nerve centres of the tension, and stressed on the need to immediately seize such firearms,” said Amrit Maity, secretary of the RSP’s Purbo Medinipur zilla committee, who was present at the meeting.

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