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Buddhadeb breaks with party on gheraos, bandhs

Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 4:25 IST No return of land to farmers, CM reiterates. Buddhadeb BhattacharjeeIn a sharp deviation from his party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today described gheraos, the practice of disrupting work by intimidating managements, as "illegal and immoral' and said he was opposed to bandhs, or full-scale closure of state services.