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Saturday, March 27, 2010 (22:23:52)
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Left will lose in West Bengal polls: Chidambaram

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New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram said today that the Left parties will be defeated in the next year's assembly elections in West Bengal.

Responding to questions after his address at the national convention of Congress-affiliated lawyers, he said that it was a myth propagated by Left parties that 77 percent of the country's population lives on Rs.20 a day.

"It is a myth that Left parties propagate. They will meet their Waterloo in about 12 months," he said.

Referring to a report of National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, he said that if the document was read in entirety, it does not give impression that 77 percent of the country's population lives on Rs.20 a day.

In his speech, Chidambaram identified poverty, terrorism and Maoist violence as among the challenges facing the country. (IANS)
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