New Delhi, January 07: In the wake of fresh political violence in West Bengal, Home Minister P Chidambaram today dispatched yet another letter to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asking him to “reschedule all appointments and visit Delhi immediately”.
Describing today’s violence in Lalgarh as a “grave incident”, Chidambaram said he has received information that eight people were killed in the firing and 18 others were injured in it.
“I have written a letter to the chief minister and drawn his attention to this grave incident and requested him to kindly reschedule all (his) appointments and visit Delhi immediately,” he told reporters here.
In one of the earlier letters, Chidambaram had invited Bhattacharjee to Delhi for a frank discussion on the extremely sensitive issue of political violence in West Bengal.
Chidambaram had also said that he would be available in Delhi between January 3 and 7.
–Agencies