— PHOTO: SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH

TAKING TO THE STREETS: Trinamool Congress activists enforce a one-hour road blockade on Singur and Nandigram issues in Kolkata on Saturday.

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee can always discuss her misgivings on the Singur project with the State Government. "The Chief Minister is repeatedly saying that he is open to discussions," Left Front Committee Chairman Biman Bose said here on Saturday.

"The matter is not within the parameters of the Left Front and if anything requires to be done it is for the State Government to do so," he said after meeting leaders of various constituents of the Left Front.

Mr. Bose was referring to Ms. Banerjee's demand that land acquired for the Tata Motors car project be returned to peasants from whom plots were allegedly taken away without their consent. Ms. Banerjee had taken up the matter during her talks with veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu here on June 4.

The Left Front welcomed the June 4 talks and Mr. Basu's initiative in hastening the peace process in Nandigram.

On the Singur issue, Ms. Banerjee had then been told that matters relating to it should be taken up with the Government, Mr. Bose said.

On Mr. Basu's sudden decision to invite Ms. Banerjee for the talks, Mr. Bose, who is also the Secretary of the CPI (M) State Committee, said Mr. Basu was not in a position to take up leadership of the peace process for Nandigram earlier because of his health condition. "It would have been good had the all-party meeting for peace at Nandigram was held under his leadership.

But in view of his health, senior leader Ashok Ghosh (All-India Forward Bloc) had been entrusted with the responsibility," Mr. Bose said.

The Left Front expressed the hope that the peace process in Nandigram would continue without any interruption.

Senior Revolutionary Socialist Party leader and Minister, Kshiti Goswami, who was present at the Left Front meeting, later said the rehabilitation package for the peasants, who were unwilling to part with their land for the Singur project, would be worked out by the State administration.

Earlier in the day Trinamool activists enforced a road blockade in the city

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