AIFB urges Mamata to end hunger strike

Lucknow, Dec 28: Appealing to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to withdraw her hunger strike and come to the discussion table, All India Forward Block(AIFB) general secretary and MP Debabrata Biswas today said all possible efforts have been made to evolve the Singur deal as a pro-farmers project.

''The Left Front government of West Bengal has only acquired 943 acre of land which has happily been given by the farmers after they were assured a prime price for their land besides 40 per cent bonus and a job for one member of each family in the Tata small car project,'' he said.

Talking to UNI, Mr Biswas said, '' Ms Banerjee, if agrees to the democratic norms, should immediately end her hunger strike and come to the discussion table so that her demand can be sorted out.

When terrorist organisation can come to the negotiation table then why Mamata is sticking to a hunger strike even as Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattarcharjee has agreed to consider her demands.''.

''Even if the state government fails to meet the demand of Ms Banerjee, then she is free to relaunch her agitation anytime,'' he added.

Demanding immediate withdrawal of cases lodged against the politicians involved in the Singur agitation and revoking of section 144 of the CrPC in the area, the AIFB leader said the party has also urged the state government not to insist on 42 acres of land at Singur, which the farmers are resisting to give for the project Maintaining that the people of West Bengal had supported the Singur project, the leader said the Left Front government came to power in the state by including it in the poll manifesto.

Meanwhile, the hunger strike of Trinamool Congress chief entered its 25th day today even as all leaders have urged her to end the agitation.

Mr Biswas, on the other hand, opposed the Reliance power project at Dadri and supported the agitation launched by former prime minister V P Singh, saying his party has objected to the SEZ policy in the country.

Demanding that farmers, whose land has been acquired in the Dadri power project, be given the shares of the company, he said all government should avoid handing agricultural land for industrial purpose.

UNI

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