KOLKATA, Nov. 2: Clashes erupted in Singur today between Trinamul Congress supporters and the CPI-M backed Nano Banchao Committee during the procession organised by Trinamul and its allies over the Nano issue, leaving several injured and a number of vehicles ablaze.
The official car in which Mr Partha Chatterjee, the Leader of the Opposition, was travelling was attacked at Ghanashyampur near Singur. The windscreen and windows were smashed, forcing the car to turn back. Mr Chatterjee alleged that bricks had been thrown at his car and that the police used tear gas.
Trinamul supremo Miss Mamata Banerjee was stopped by the police near Dankuni crossing for about half an hour and told not go ahead.
The whole area turned into a battlefield with CPI-M cadres and processionists attacking one another. Several huts and vehicles were set on fire and many, including policemen, were injured.
Nano Banchao Committee activists had taken up positions at different entry points to Singur a couple of hours before the programme was to start. They shouted slogans protesting asking Miss Banerjee to go back and complained that the procession was an attempt to stir trouble in the area when efforts were on to set up a new industry there.
Miss Banerjee’s motorcade was stopped by police at Maitipara in Dankuni around 3 p.m. and a senior police officer asked her not to go ahead. She, however, insisted on continuing on her way to Singur. Police relented after about half an hour and she was allowed to proceed.
After reaching Singur, the Trinamul chief declared that the government should return “forcibly acquired” 400 acres of land to the unwilling farmers. “I’ll fight till the last; new industry can begin only after the unwilling farmers get back their lands.
“The CPI-M has become so politically bankrupt that when we wanted to organise a procession they resorted to violence and undemocratic behaviour,” Miss Banerjee said.
Trinamul Congress and its allies will organise a rally in the city to protest against today’s violence before the members of Krishi Jomi Jiban Jibika Raksha Committee (KJJJRC) meet to chalk out their next course of action.
She alleged that CPI-M cadres and the RAF tortured the villagers, including women, in Joymollah, Sanarapa and Bajemelia.
CPI-M state secretary Mr Biman Bose later said that those behind the landmine blast in Salboni and those who had driven out the Nano project were working together to thwart the state’s development.
Mr Bose said that the Trinamul and its allies were trying to hoodwink the people by claiming that they wanted both industry and agriculture to grow. He also alleged that Miss Banerjee was working in the interests of some other industrialists against the Tatas. ( Source: The Statesman )
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