Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's admission of administrative and political failure in Nandigram on Tuesday sparked the demand for his resignation by Opposition Trinamool Congress and Congress while his Left Front allies RSP and Forward Bloc welcomed it.
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee reacted sharply to Bhattacharjee's regretting his remark that those opposing the land acquisition in Nandigram had been "paid back in their own coin and said "whenever he comes up with a sort of regret, the violence starts".
State Congress general secretary Manas Bhuiyan said that "Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee is in the habit of making regrets later for his comments. He had done it on several occasions in the past. He should quit after his admission that Nandigram was an administrative and political failure."
The RSP and Forward Bloc said the administrative and political failure in Nandigram, as admitted by Bhattacharjee, was because of CPM's "unilateral decision to handle the situation there keeping the partners in the dark".
"What we have been saying, what the people and the intellectuals have been saying had been echoed by the Chief Minister admitting that Nandigram was an administrative and political failure" state secretary of Forward Bloc Ashok Ghosh said.
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