By Caesar Mandal
SINGUR: Mamata Banerjee loosened her stranglehold on Durgapur Expressway on Friday, but only partially. Megaphone in hand, she urged her supporters to leave one flank of the highway open for traffic. Trucks, which were stuck for days, slowly rolled past the dharna mancha . A request from Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to suspend the agitation and clear the expressway until the talks went half-heard in the morning. The Opposition had apparently given an assurance to Gandhi on Thursday that they would clear the highway before the delegates started arriving for the talks. But the morning showed a different picture. A week ago, Calcutta HC had ordered the removal of the blockade, but the Trinamool chief insisted that neither she, nor her supporters, had blocked NH2. On Friday morning, too, she stuck to her guns. Until CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced that the Raj Bhavan meeting was delayed because the Opposition hadn’t complied with the governor’s request to lift the blockade. Mamata insisted that there was no blockade, but this time she did something different: she took the microphone and instructed her supporters to move away from the eastern flank of the expressway. The protesters moved to the other side where the dais was. Vehicles moved on the eastern flank, between Ratanpur and Joymollah — the two ends of the Nano plant where the agitation is on. State home secretary Asok Chakrabarti, however, differed. ‘‘One of the lanes has been opened but the situation is very bad. Trucks are still stranded. It is not possible for police to allow vehicles to move on both the flanks,” he said.(END) : Source: Times of India
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