Nandigram (West Bengal): Marking a high-pitched return to the centrestage of anti-farmaland acquisition stir after a long lay-off, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she would not allow the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government to acquire agricultural land for industries or SEZs till she is alive.
"Till the last drop of my blood and till I am alive, I would not allow the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Government to forcibly acquire farmland to set up industries or SEZs," Banerjee, she told a rally here, her first in a month since she fell ill due during her 25-day hunger strike on the issue of Tatas' car project in Singur.
"I salute the people of Nandigram for putting up a stiff resistance to the government's move to acquire land for setting up a SEZ by the Salim Group of Indonesia. Those who died while resisting the move have become martyrs," she told the huge rally organsied by the Krishi Raksha committee.
"Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee does not understand that land is mother and mother is land for farmers. He (Buddha) only understands money though he claims he is Marxist," she said.
The TC chief asked the people the continue the agitation against the government's move to acquire farmland for industry.
Launching the agitation against farmland acquisition, Mamata said: "You have become the talking point for people all over India and even abroad. People in other places are talking how brave the people of Singur and Nandigram are resisting the government move to forcibly acquire farmland with all their might and five people in Nandigram have sacrificed their live for that cause."
The Trinamool chief said the Left Front government "is playing with fire" on land acquisition issue and warned that it will "pay the consequence of playing with fire and taking the people for granted."
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