AIFB urges Mamata to end hunger strike
MIL/Agencies, Dec 28, 2006.
Lucknow, December 28, 2006 - 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 on Thursday 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.
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.
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