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“Singur attack is to intimidate residents”

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Kolkata: The attack on security personnel at Singur is to intimidate residents and shut down the Tata car project, the Left Front has said.

In a statement here on Tuesday, Biman Bose, Chairman of the Left Front Committee, said the State government was making sincere efforts to ensure resumption of work at the project site but the Trinamool and its allies rejected a package announced by the government aimed at benefiting those whose land had been acquired for the project, and stuck to their “illogical” demand [of returning 300 acres of land from within the project site to farmers] with the motive of scuttling the project.

The Left Front appealed to the people to foil this conspiracy of the Trinamool and its allies which did not want employment opportunities generated through industrialisation.

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, in an appeal on Sunday to Opposition parties to accept the government package and call off their agitation, had expressed his fear that further delay in doing so would result in the Tata project going out of the State.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee however, has rejected the package and threatened to resume her agitation on the issue of return of 300 acres of land from within the project area to farmers.

She has been accusing the State government of creating a “constitutional crisis” by “violating” an agreement between it and her associates on the question of providing land to the farmers concerned — one that was arrived at in the presence of Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on September 7. On Sunday she served a one-week ultimatum to the government to abide by the agreement, warning of a fresh agitation in the event of its failing to do so.

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