Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi last evening and complained to him that while he was away in Delhi the state government announced, “in flagrant breach of the accord reached at Raj Bhavan on 7 September,” a fresh rehabilitation package for farmers whose land had been acquired for the Tata Motors' small car project at Singur.
Minutes after Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with the Governor, the chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said the Singur stalemate could be resolved if the Opposition accepted the new rehabilitation package advertised in all newspapers by the state government.
Jyoti Basu has also appealed to agitators to accept the state government's fresh rehabilitation package for the land-losers and help resumption of work at the project site. “To enable the small car project to materialise, the state government recently announced a compensation package for the farmers who have given land. I appeal to all concerned to accept the package and allow the project to come up,” Basu said. “I also appeal to those who are opposing the project to rise above politics and cooperate with the state government in allowing the project to come up in the interest of the people of the state,” he stated. Basu said once the project came up, it would increase employment opportunities and bring about economic development.
Following pleas from ailing CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu and governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for a resolution “for the sake of Bengal and its people”, Mamata said in the evening: “I believe the Singur problem will be resolved soon.” She said: “I seriously want a solution to the Singur problem in the interest of Bengal, industrialisation, agriculture and, above all, its people…. I have requested the governor to talk to the government to find a solution.”
Leader of the Opposition and senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee called on Mr. Gandhi separately at the Raj Bhavan earlier in the day.Emerging from the meeting, Mr. Chatterjee told journalists that he had apprised the Governor of the “lawlessness let loose by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)” at Singur. “If such a situation persists we will demand invoking of Article 355 of the Constitution,” he added.
11 farmers who were earlier unwilling to take the compensation collected their cheques yesterday. “About 20 to 25 of them submitted applications,” said Hooghly district magistrate Neelam Meena.
The Calcutta High Court yesterday refused to hear a PIL moved by a Delhi-based NGO demanding its intervention to ensure the Tata Motors project stayed in Singur. “How can the court interfere in the matter?” the division bench of Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar and Justice S. Banerjee said and dismissed the plea.
Sources : The Statesman , The Telegraph and The Hindu
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