KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said here on Tuesday that her party was willing to participate in an all-party meeting to restore normality at Nandigram only if it was convened by Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

Singur, however, was a different issue and her party would continue its campaign against the setting up of the Tata Motors' car manufacturing project there, she said.

Recently Ms. Banerjee turned down an appeal from Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to the Opposition to attend such a meeting, arguing that the State Government was responsible for the violence at Nandigram.

While the first signs of normality returning to Nandigram were evident after nearly four months of sporadic violence there was fresh trouble at Singur when the police dispersed a group of people allegedly belonging to the Trinamool Congress-led Krishi Jami Raksha Committee, which attacked a portion of the wall that cordons off the proposed automobile project site. "The wall will not stay," Ms. Banerjee warned.

She discounted the talk of the campaign being led by her party at Nandigram and Singur as being part of a "political" fight against the Left Front.

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