Click to play videoSingur Launching the Trinamool Congress' (TC) dharna demanding return of 400 acres of land acquired for Tata Motors car project, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the Singur impasse could be peacefully resolved by utilising an alternate low-lying land instead of the present plant site.
"There is a 500-acre low-lying land near the project site where the ancillary units can come up and the government can decide on it. If the government agrees, we will show it to them," Banerjee told a huge gathering near the Tata Motors plant in Singur.
The Trinamool-run panchayat bodies would be informed about this land and they would be involved in the process, she said, rejecting West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's proposal on Saturday that the government was ready with a package and wanted talks on it.
"That is an old proposition. That will not solve the problem," the TC chief was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
The proposed land was lying with CPI(M) backed promoters, she claimed.
However, if the land was not used for the vendor park, the party-controlled panchayat would not allow construction of multi-storey buildings there, she warned.
Mamata repeatedly appealed to party workers to peacefully conduct the dharna and said her party did not want the Tatas to leave, but to restrict its small car factory at Singur to 600 acre.
Stressing the agitation would be totally peaceful, the TC supremo told her supporters.
"Don't even look at walls of the Tata Motors factory. We believe in people's movement. No agitation can be launched by demolishing walls. If anybody tries to demolish walls, we will not have anything to do with them,” she said.
Trinamool Congress volunteers even formed a human chain near the main gate of the Tata plant to prevent anyone from going near it. Two party flags of TC and Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), which were tied to the police barricades, were removed at her instruction.
Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh who spoke on the occasion said he was "misled" by CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat and politburo member Brinda Karat, who had claimed that the agitations in Nandigram and Singur were led by Naxals and anti-socials.
The SP leader begged apology for his party taking the support of the CPI-M in the past.
Throwing his party's weight behind the TC's agitation, he said the Tatas had received invitations from different state governments like Maharashtra to shift their car plant. "Let them go if they are invited elsewhere."
In Kolkata, CPI-M politburo member Biman Bose said that there should be more dialogue to sort out the Singur land impasse and as a first step, the number of farmers who were unwilling to part with their land should be determined.
Bose, who said he had no objection to a peaceful and democratic movement, said following the initial talks between CM Buddhadev Bhattacharjee and TC leader Partha Chatterjee, there should be exchange of papers and documents to ascertain claims and counter claims.
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