Mamata urges PM to sack West Bengal govt

New Delhi, July 3: A delegation of victims of Singur and Nandigram police atrocities, leading intellectuals and social activists, led by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Bannerjee, called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today and urged him to sack the West Bengal Government for ''unleashing a reign of terror in the state''.

Talking to newspersons outside the PMO, Ms Banerjee said she urged Dr Singh to sack the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya-led Left Front Government and provide adequate protection to women and children and security to life and property of Dalits and minorities in the state.

The delegation later held a massive ''Bhukha Michhil'' (hunger rally) at Jantar Mantar here to ''highlight the gross violation of Human Rights'' by the CPI(M)-led Left front Government and the ''indifferent'' attitude of the UPA government towards the issue.

Ms Banerjee asked Dr Singh to order a CBI inqiury into the alleged aquisition of land by Salim Group and the Tatas as the state government had refused to part with any information on a petition filed under the Right to Information Act.

''We are not at all against industrialisation but our demand is that the Governemnt must announce what their land acquisition policy is. They must maintain a land bank for the purpose of industrialisation.

''Some 55,000 big industrial units and over one lakh small units which are lying closed for the past several years should be re-allocated their land and not that good agricultural land should be forcefully acquired in the name of industrialisation,'' she added.

The delegation also urged the Centre for scrapping the 1894 Land acquisition Act.

UNI

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