Click to play videoKolkata: The West Bengal government will not acquire land in Nandigram village for industry and police will be withdrawn from the village gradually.
Parties of the Left Government decided this in Kolkata at a meeting to discuss the clashes between opponents of a proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and police on Wednesday and Thursday. As many as 14 people died in the clashes.
The CPI-M extracted a major demand from its allies: the government will not apologise or condemn the police crackdown on protesters. The CPI-M also got a promise from the parties that they will not issue press statements on Nandigram.
“On behalf of the Left Front a political and social process will be started to restore normalcy in Nandigram,'' said Left Front Committee Chairman Biman Basu after the meeting.
The meeting was held after the smaller allies, the RSP, Forward Bloc and the CPI, threatened to walk out of the govt if the police was not withdrawn from Nandigram and a proposed SEZ by Indonesia’s Salim Group was not scrapped.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and former chief minister and CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu attended the meeting.
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