Mamata's truce with CPI(M) enrages SUCI

Kolkata, June 8 (UNI) With Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee assuring all help, homecoming started for the evicted CPI (M) supporters in Nandigram driving a wedge in the Bhoomi Uchched Protirodh Committee as SUCI today declared to oppose the truce.

Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray said about 50 of the 2,500 CPI (M) supporters, who were forced to flee in the unabated political violence, came back two days ago after about five months, SUCI state Secretary Provash Ghosh, however, accused Ms Banerjee of sacrificing the interest of the people of Nandigram for political gains.

Stating that the CPI(M) would be committing a blunder if it went for an adjustment only with the Trinamool Congress, Mr Ghosh demanded that the problem of Nandigram would have to be sorted out through dialogues with the Bhoomi Uchched Protirodh Committee, a platform of different opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress and the SUCI.

''In a bid to save its face and make the CPI(M) happy, the Trinamool leadership is sacrificing the interest of the Nandigram people in lieu of settling for the demand of returning land only to those farmers who have not accepted compensation cheques, instead of giving land back to all the farmers of Singur,'' he said in a statement.

He alleged Ms Banerjee's indefinite hunger strike in Kolkata in December last year, helped police to ''capture'' farmers' land at Singur.

Maintaining that the SUCI would not give up the demand for returning land to all the Singur farmers, whose plots had been acquired, Mr Ghosh also demanded that those accused of ''killing and rape'' in Nandigram must be arrested and the guilty police officials punished.

UNI