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alike. Indeed the police had to resort to firing when the armed mob refused to disperse even after much persuasion and tear gassing and started attacking the police. The then Chief
Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was awarded a clean-chit for non-involvement in the Nandigram violence by the CBI. The
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Fresh elections were held in West Bengal in 1969. CPI(M) emerged as the largest party in the West Bengal legislative assembly. But with the active support of CPI and the Bangla
Congress, Ajoy Mukherjee was returned as Chief Minister of the state. Mukherjee resigned on March 16, 1970 and the state
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Out of the 14,388 families who deserted , 10,260 families returned to their previous places … and the remaining 4,128 families perished in transit, died of starvation, exhaustion, and many were killed in
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where, under the orders of the Left Front government, more than 4,000 heavily armed police stormed the
Nandigram area with the aim of stamping out protests against the West Bengal government's plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km) of land for a
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of 1971 resulted in the influx of millions of refugees to West Bengal, causing significant strains on its infrastructure. The government was credited for handling the refugee crisis fairly well by the
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police shot 13 villagers dead and one died from a very suspicious knife-attack, thus sparking controversies whether the police were, in the least, the ones to fire. At least 30 police officers were injured in the incident.
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among six sites offered by the West Bengal state government. The project faced massive opposition from displaced farmers. The unwilling farmers were given political support by West Bengal's then-opposition leader
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from West Bengal but his and his government's actions backfired, creating state-wide outrage against him and the then West Bengal
Government. During this period, the then Prime Minister of India,
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was appointed as his successor. In 2000, the Left Front came back to the power with
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community. Terms of office run for five years, unless the
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killed thousands of people. West Bengal politics underwent a major change when the
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as the Chief Minister. The state saw rapid developments in this period, with the
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became the chief minister. He wanted to erase every single
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398:Members of the Legislative Assembly
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1673:List of political parties in India
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1860:Biswas, Soutik (2006-04-16).
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1788:"Composition of Rajya Sabha"
1756:"Notification: order no. 18"
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816:Singur Tata Nano controversy
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828:Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
809:Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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