False Report By Times of India

Date: 
Friday, May 19, 2006

Press Statement

The CPI(M) Central Committee office has issued the following statement:

A report had appeared in all editions of The Times of India dated May 17, 2006 that Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chief Minister of West Bengal, had written a letter to the Union Minister of Civil Aviation regarding the modernisation of Kolkata airport on the lines of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has stated that the report is false and he has not sent any letter on airport modernisation of Kolkata to the Union Minister.