But everybody is missing him,” Sitaram Yechury said. Telegraph file pictureCPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said he was missing former Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee — a star campaigner in his heyday — this poll season. In an exclusive television interview to ABP Ananda, Yechury said: “We all are missing Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee during this Lok Sabha polls.”Asked whether his party had taken initiative to make a video message of Bhattacharjee for the campaign, Yechury said: “I personally went to his residence and requested a video message that could be played during the party’s campaign across Bengal. But he is not in a physical condition to record any such video message.”Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Telegraph pictureYechury added, however, that Bhattacharjee had given an interview to CPM mouthpiece Ganashakti. But everybody is missing him,” Yechury said.

Source: The Telegraph May 16, 2019 20:37 UTC