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	\| name = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee		\| name = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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	\| image = ~~The Chief Minister of West Bengal Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing at the 52nd National Development Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 9, 2006~~.jpg		\| caption = Bhattacharjee at a meeting in Murshidabad
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	\| birth_date = {{Birth date and age\|1944\|3\|1\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date and age\|1944\|3\|1\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]		\| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
	~~\| death_date =~~
	~~\| death_place =~~
	\| residence = Palm Avenue, [[Kolkata]]		\| residence = Palm Avenue, [[Kolkata]]
	\| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata\|Presidency College]], [[Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya]]		\| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata\|Presidency College]], [[Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya]]
	\| profession = Politician, littérateur, scholiast, columnist, poet, orator		\| profession = Politician, littérateur, scholiast, columnist, poet, orator
	\| relations = [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (uncle)		\| relations = [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (uncle)
	\| ~~website =~~		\| office7 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)\|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly\|West Bengal]]
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	\| ~~successor7~~ = [[Prafulla Kanti Ghosh]]
	\| office2 = 2nd [[List of deputy chief ministers of West Bengal\|Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal]]		\| office2 = 2nd [[List of deputy chief ministers of West Bengal\|Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal]]
	\| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister		\| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
	\| 1namedata2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]		\| 1namedata2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
	\| term_start2 = ~~12 January 1999~~		\| term_start2 = 2000
	\| term_end2 = ~~5 November 2000~~<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web\|author=Business Standard \|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-to-take-over-as-bengal-cmfriday-/135376/on \|title=Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday \|publisher=Business-standard.com \|date=2011-05-16 \|access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref>		\| term_end2 = 2001<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web\|author=Business Standard \|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-to-take-over-as-bengal-cmfriday-/135376/on \|title=Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday \|publisher=Business-standard.com \|date=2011-05-16 \|access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref>
	\| predecessor2 = [[Jyoti Basu]] ~~<br /> (March - November 1967; February 1969 - March 1970)~~		\| predecessor2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
	\| successor2 = Vacant		\| successor2 = Vacant
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	\| office1 = Chief Minister of West Bengal		\| office1 = Chief Minister of West Bengal
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	\| governor1 = [[Viren J. Shah]] <br> [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] <br> [[Devanand Konwar]] <br> [[M. K. Narayanan]]		\| governor1 = [[Viren J. Shah]] <br> [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] <br> [[Devanand Konwar]] <br> [[M. K. Narayanan]]
	\| predecessor1 = [[Jyoti Basu]]		\| predecessor1 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
	\| successor1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]		\| successor1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
	\| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]		\| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
	\| ~~constituency6~~ = [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]]		\| constituency7 = [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]]
	\| ~~term_start6~~ = ~~10 April~~ 1987		\| term_start7 = 1987
	\| ~~term_end6~~ = ~~13 May~~ 2011		\| term_end7 = 2011
	\| ~~predecessor6~~ = [[Ashok Mitra]]<ref>[[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] (Wikipedia)</ref>		\| predecessor7 = [[Ashok Mitra]]<ref>[[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] (Wikipedia)</ref>
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	\| ~~term_start8~~ = 2002		\| term_start9 = 2002
	\| ~~term_end8~~ = 2015		\| term_end9 = 2015
			\| term_start6 = 2000
			\| term_end6 = 2011
			\| office6 = Minister of Land and Land Revenue, [[Government of West Bengal]]
			\| preceded6 = [[Hare Krishna Konar]]
			\| succeeded6 = Vacant
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	'''Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee''' (born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and a former member of the [[Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was the [[List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal\|Chief Minister of West Bengal]] from 2000 to 2011. He was the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)\|MLA]] of [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]] constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former [[Chief Secretary (India)\|Chief Secretary]] of his own government, [[Manish Gupta (politician)\|Manish Gupta]],<ref name="hindustantimes1">[http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx "Buddhadeb loses at Jadavpur constituency"], ''Hindustan Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516081846/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx \|date=16 May 2011 }}</ref> by 16,684 votes in the [[2011 West Bengal state assembly election\|2011 West Bengal election]].<ref name="hindustantimes1"/> He is the second [[Chief Minister of West Bengal\|West Bengal Chief Minister]] to lose an election from his own constituency, after [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]] in 1967.<ref>[http://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html "Buddhadeb loses from Jadavpore"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204060706/https://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html \|date=4 December 2014 }}, ''Yahoo! News'', May 13, 2011.</ref>		'''Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee''' (born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and a former member of the [[Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was the [[List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal\|Chief Minister of West Bengal]] from 2000 to 2011.

	Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialize West Bengal thwarted by the [[Tata Group\|TATA]]'s [[Tata Motors]] leaving [[West Bengal\|Bengal]] in the face of the joint protests of the [[All India Trinamool Congress\|Trinamool ~~congress~~]],<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html "WB polls: Buddha has himself to blame for Left-front's loss"], ''India Today'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517045314/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html \|date=17 May 2011 }}</ref> [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)\|Socialist Unity Centre of India]], ~~[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]~~ and [[Indian National Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web\|last=India\|first=One\|date=December 3, 2006\|title=BJP President Rajnath to visit Singur tomorrow\|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2006/12/03/bjp-president-rajnath-to-visit-singur-tomorrow-1165160142.html}}</ref> the [[Singur Tata Nano controversy\|land acquisition dispute]] in [[Singur]], the [[Nandigram violence\|Nandigram incident]],<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms " Exit Buddhadeb, man who saw beyond ideological convictions"], ''The Economic Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005638/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms \|date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> and the Netai incident.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/CPM-pays-for-Netai--suffers-losses-in-Junglemahal/790753/ " CPM pays for Netai, suffers losses in Junglemahal"], ''Indian Express'', May 14, 2011.</ref>		He was the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)\|MLA]] of [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]] constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former [[Chief Secretary (India)\|Chief Secretary]] of his own government, [[Manish Gupta (politician)\|Manish Gupta]],<ref name="hindustantimes1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516081846/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx "Buddhadeb loses at Jadavpur constituency"], ''Hindustan Times'', May 14, 2011. </ref> by 16,684 votes in the [[2011 West Bengal state assembly election\|2011 West Bengal election]].<ref name="hindustantimes1" /> He is the second [[Chief Minister of West Bengal\|West Bengal Chief Minister]] to lose an election from his own constituency, after [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]] in 1967.<ref>[http://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html "Buddhadeb loses from Jadavpore"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204060706/https://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html \|date=4 December 2014 }}, ''Yahoo! News'', May 13, 2011.</ref>

			Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialize West Bengal thwarted by the [[Tata Group\|TATA]]'s [[Tata Motors]] leaving [[West Bengal\|Bengal]] in the face of the joint protests of the [[All India Trinamool Congress\|Trinamool Congress]],<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html "WB polls: Buddha has himself to blame for Left-front's loss"], ''India Today'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517045314/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html \|date=17 May 2011 }}</ref> [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)\|Socialist Unity Centre of India]], and [[Indian National Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web\|last=India\|first=One\|date=December 3, 2006\|title=BJP President Rajnath to visit Singur tomorrow\|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2006/12/03/bjp-president-rajnath-to-visit-singur-tomorrow-1165160142.html}}</ref> the [[Singur Tata Nano controversy\|land acquisition dispute]] in [[Singur]], the [[Nandigram violence\|Nandigram incident]],<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms " Exit Buddhadeb, man who saw beyond ideological convictions"], ''The Economic Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005638/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms \|date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> and the Netai incident.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/CPM-pays-for-Netai--suffers-losses-in-Junglemahal/790753/ " CPM pays for Netai, suffers losses in Junglemahal"], ''Indian Express'', May 14, 2011.</ref>

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==

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{{short description|7th Chief Minister of West Bengal}}
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| name = Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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| image = The Chief Minister of West Bengal Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing at the 52nd National Development Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 9, 2006.jpg
| caption = Bhattacharjee addressing the National Development Council in 2006
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| date =
| year =
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|3|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date =
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| residence = Palm Avenue, [[Kolkata]]
| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]], [[Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya]]
| profession = Politician, littérateur, scholiast, columnist, poet, orator
| relations = [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (uncle)
| website =
| office6 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|West Bengal]]
| term_start7 = 1977
| term_end7 = 1982
| constituency7 = [[Cossipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Cossipur]]
| predecessor7 = [[Prafulla Kanti Ghosh]]
| successor7 = [[Prafulla Kanti Ghosh]]
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| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| term_start2 = 12 January 1999
| term_end2 = 5 November 2000<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web|author=Business Standard |url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mamata-to-take-over-as-bengal-cmfriday-/135376/on |title=Mamata to take over as Bengal CM on Friday |publisher=Business-standard.com |date=2011-05-16 |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref>
| predecessor2 = [[Jyoti Basu]] <br /> (March - November 1967; February 1969 - March 1970)
| successor2 = Vacant
| order1 = 8th
| office1 = Chief Minister of West Bengal
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| governor1 = [[Viren J. Shah]] <br> [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] <br> [[Devanand Konwar]] <br> [[M. K. Narayanan]]
| predecessor1 = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| successor1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| constituency6 = [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]]
| term_start6 = 10 April 1987
| term_end6 = 13 May 2011
| predecessor6 = [[Ashok Mitra]]<ref>[[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] (Wikipedia)</ref>
| successor6 = [[Manish Gupta (politician)|Manish Gupta]]
| office8 = [[Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Member of CPI(M) Polit Bureau]]
| term_start8 = 2002
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}}
'''Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee''' (born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and a former member of the [[Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was the [[List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister of West Bengal]] from 2000 to 2011. He was the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]] constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was historically defeated by the former [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary]] of his own government, [[Manish Gupta (politician)|Manish Gupta]],<ref name="hindustantimes1">[http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx "Buddhadeb loses at Jadavpur constituency"], ''Hindustan Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516081846/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Buddhadeb-loses-at-Jadavpur-constituency/Article1-697161.aspx |date=16 May 2011 }}</ref> by 16,684 votes in the [[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|2011 West Bengal election]].<ref name="hindustantimes1"/> He is the second [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|West Bengal Chief Minister]] to lose an election from his own constituency, after [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]] in 1967.<ref>[http://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html "Buddhadeb loses from Jadavpore"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204060706/https://in.news.yahoo.com/buddhadeb-loses-jadavpore-114750853.html |date=4 December 2014 }}, ''Yahoo! News'', May 13, 2011.</ref>

Events during his tenure as Chief Minister included attempts to industrialize West Bengal thwarted by the [[Tata Group|TATA]]'s [[Tata Motors]] leaving [[West Bengal|Bengal]] in the face of the joint protests of the [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool congress]],<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html "WB polls: Buddha has himself to blame for Left-front's loss"], ''India Today'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517045314/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/west-bengal-polls-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-has-himself-to-blame/1/138126.html |date=17 May 2011 }}</ref> [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|Socialist Unity Centre of India]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and [[Indian National Congress]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=India|first=One|date=December 3, 2006|title=BJP President Rajnath to visit Singur tomorrow|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2006/12/03/bjp-president-rajnath-to-visit-singur-tomorrow-1165160142.html}}</ref> the [[Singur Tata Nano controversy|land acquisition dispute]] in [[Singur]], the [[Nandigram violence|Nandigram incident]],<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms " Exit Buddhadeb, man who saw beyond ideological convictions"], ''The Economic Times'', May 14, 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005638/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/exit-buddhadeb-man-who-saw-beyond-ideological-convictions/articleshow/8316619.cms |date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> and the Netai incident.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/CPM-pays-for-Netai--suffers-losses-in-Junglemahal/790753/ " CPM pays for Netai, suffers losses in Junglemahal"], ''Indian Express'', May 14, 2011.</ref>

== Early life ==
Born in 1944 in north [[Calcutta]], Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee belongs to a family which had produced another famous son. Revolutionary poet [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] was his father's cousin. A former student of [[Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya]].<ref>[http://www.cpim.org/bio/buddhadeb_bhattacharjee.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116011444/http://www.cpim.org/bio/buddhadeb_bhattacharjee.htm |date=16 January 2008 }}</ref> Bhattacharjee had his ancestral house in [[Bangladesh]]. He studied Bengali literature at the [[List of Kolkata Presidencians|Presidency College]], Kolkata, and secured his B.A. degree in Bengali (Honors), later he joined the CPI(M) as a primary member.<ref>[http://www.wbgov.com/e-gov/English/CM.asp Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]</ref> Besides taking active part in the food movement, he also supported [[Vietnam]]'s cause in 1968. He was appointed state secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation, the youth wing of the CPI(M) that was later merged into the [[Democratic Youth Federation of India]].

== Political career and controversies ==
{{Main|Singur Tata Nano controversy|Nandigram violence}}
However, he took the biggest risk of his political career by embarking upon the industrialization drive to change the face of West Bengal, which had agriculture as primary source of income. He deviated from the standard Marxist doctrine to invite foreign and national capital to set up factories in West Bengal. Notable among them was the world's cheapest car, [[Tata Nano]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article3164205.ece |title=The Sunday Times |publisher=Timesonline.co.uk |date=2012-03-13 |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref> from a small hamlet near Kolkata called Singur. There were other proposals too, such as country's largest integrated steel plant in Salboni, West Midanpore district by Jindal group, and a chemical hub at [[Nayachar]] after it faced agrarian resistance in [[Nandigram]]. However, his plans backfired, and his party, along with its front partners, suffered heavy losses in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. In the [[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|2011 state assembly election]] he was defeated by the [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool congress]] candidate Manish Gupta by 16,684 votes, and the CPI(M) lost power in the state. He was relieved from his posts on the Politburo and Central Committee at the 21st party congress, organised at Vishakhapatnam in 2015.

In January 2006 the [[Supreme Court of India]] issued notices to Left Front Government ministers including Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and others in relation to land allotments made in the [[Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata|Salt Lake City]] township in [[Kolkata]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070314084023/http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/24/stories/2006012405351200.htm "Court notice to Jyoti Basu"], ''The Hindu'', January 24, 2006.</ref>

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's Government came under heavy criticism for [[Nandigram SEZ controversy|police action against demonstrators in Nandigram in East Midnapore]]. He was criticized not only by opposition parties (such as the [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool congress]], [[Party of Democratic Socialism (India)|Party of Democratic Socialism]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]], [[Communist Revolutionary League of India]] and others) and other Left Front coalition allies like [[Communist Party of India]], [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)]] and [[Forward Bloc]], who threatened to back out from the ministry on this issue, but also by his mentor and the state's former chief minister, Jyoti Basu. On March 15, 2007 Basu criticized Bhattacharjee for failing to restrain the police in Nandigram.<ref>Subir Bhaumik, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6457035.stm "India strike over police shooting"], BBC News, March 16, 2007.</ref> Bhattacharjee expressed regret for the shootings, but claimed that he permitted police action because Nandigram was an "area where there had been no rule of law and no presence of an administration for not one, two or 10 days but for two-and-a-half months, and many hundreds of villagers left Nandigram, and took shelter in a state relief camp outside Nandigram."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070325180555/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/16/stories/2007031609061400.htm "Deaths in violence unfortunate, says Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee"], ''The Hindu'', March 16, 2007.</ref> Actually Budhhadeb Bhattacharjee declared that land in Nandigram won't be acquired by ordering the Nandigram notification to be torn apart.<ref name="hindu2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/16/stories/2007031609061400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325180555/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/16/stories/2007031609061400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-03-25 |title=National : Deaths in violence unfortunate, says Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee |date=2007-03-16 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rxpgnews.com/business/Tear-apart-Nandigram-notification-Buddhadeb-_printer.shtml |title=Tear apart Nandigram notification: Buddhadeb |publisher=Rxpgnews.com |access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref> Still police were not allowed to enter Nandigram. Roads were dug up, preventing administration from entering the area.<ref name="hindu2007"/> The CPI(M) declared that they were totally behind Bhattacharjee and had drawn up "plans" to placate his critics in the Left Front.<ref>Subrata Nagchoudhury, [http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/25999.html "Party stands by Buddha, gets restive allies to fall in line"], indianexpress.com, March 18, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017191927/http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/25999.html |date=17 October 2007 }}</ref> His government was also criticized by Left supporters for failing to protect the Left party workers (including his own party CPI(M)) who came under assault from political opponents - both right wing and ultra-left wing Maoists during the post-Nandigram turmoil until the end of 7th Left Front Government.

==Published works==
* ''Nazi Germany r Jonmo O Mrityu (The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany)'' (2020)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Choudhury |first1=Monishankar |title=Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee pens book on Nazi Germany |url=https://www.sangbadpratidin.in/kolkata/buddhadeb-bhattacharjee-pens-book-on-nazi-germany/ |access-date=5 April 2021 |work=Sangbad Pratidin |language=bn|date=5 October 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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*[https://cpim.org/states/danger-fascism-buddhadeb-bhattacharya Danger of Fascism: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]
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