Buddhadeb convenes all-party meet

As fresh violence claimed two lives in Nandigram over the past two days, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has convened an all-party peace meeting.

As fresh violence claimed two lives in Nandigram over the past two days, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has convened an all-party peace meeting at the East Midnapore district headquarters in Tamluk on August nine, the Chief Minister's office said.

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"The Chief Minister will attend an all-party meeting at 9:30 a.M. In Tamluk on August nine in the wake of the recent developments in Nandigram," it said this evening adding, district administration officials will also be present.

Earlier in the day, a person identified as Dulal Gadu of Gadupara in Gokulnagar was shot by some unknown miscreants, during a bandh being observed in five blocks of East Midnapore district against yesterday's killing of CPI(M) worker Niranjan Mandol, Nandigram OC Debashis Chakraborty said. Gadu died on way to hospital.