<b>Aditi Phadnis:</b> Is he lonely?

PLAIN POLITICS

 Is there some chance that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will resign in the aftermath of Nandigram? Earlier this week, Left Front Chairman Biman Basu ruled this out, indicating that the same idea had struck others as well. Bhattacharjee is rather more emotional than the average Bengali and is known to act on impulse: he had resigned once earlier (1993) from the cabinet of his predecessor, Jyoti Basu, as a protest against