Click to play videoNew Delhi: After a clash of words for days, the two warring sides seem to be heading for talks.
Sources have told CNN-IBN, that the West Bengal governor, Gopal Gandhi could form a 10-member committee to solve the Singur land row.
Five people on the committee will be representatives of the state govt and the other five will be from the Trinamool Congress-led protest group.
The Governor would preside over the committee.
Climbing down from her hitherto uncompromising stand, Mamata Bannerjee held out a ray of hope.
On Tuesday, all roads to a solution had seemed blocked, with Tata motors issuing an ultimatum that it would suspend work at the Nano plant.
The Tatas had expressed concern over the safety of their staff and workers as well as concern over the impediments to work.
Barely hours after this ultimatum, Singur witnessed its first casualty. A 65-year-old Sushin Santra consumed poison on Wednesday morning and perished on his way to the hospital.
Santra had parted with his land for the Tata Motors facility in Singur and had been given employment for his three sons in the Tata plant.
When work at the plant was suspended over Trinamool Congress' (TMC) relentless agitation, Sushin sunk into depression.
He had been worried that a pullout by Tatas would mean loss of livelihood for the family.
Singur witnessed spurts of violence during the day with sections of local people with pro-Nano people preventing the entry of TMC workers to the dharna side.
This could be one reason for Mamata to have agreed to talks..
12 people, Sushin Santra have perished in Singur in the past two years. All of them were caught in the volley of TMC and the state government.
Even as the deadline for bringing out the Tata Nano car draws near, confusion prevails in Singur.
In a U-turn from last week when Kamal Nath offered central help to Ratan Tata, the Commerce and Industries minister has now washed his hands off the issue and in fact given an offer to the Tatas to bring projects to his home state, Madhya Pradesh.
This is the dilemma faced by the Centre and Congress.
Party sources admit that their hands are tied. It is important to keep Mamata happy as otherwise it would mean turning its back on the farmers' plight and also antagonising a potential ally that TMC has become.
But the UPA has also argued strongly in favour of SEZ and facilitating industry friendly conditions.
For now.the Congress has taken an easy way out. It blames the Left for not balancing industry and farmer interests.
For the Centre it is a choice between the devil and the deep sea.
On the one hand its its pro-farmer image while on the other is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's stand that growth is possible with hassle free industrialisation.
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