By IANS
Kolkata : Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday held a meeting near Singur, which saw farmers’ protest against land acquisition for a car project exactly a year ago, and reaffirmed her party’s commitment to their cause.
Addressing a rally at Sanapara, around 35 km from Kolkata, she said her party’s movement against land acquisition would continue and exhorted members of the Krishjami Raksha Committee (Committee to Protect Farmland) not to give up their farmlands.
Banerjee also urged people from all sections of society to join in a ‘Progressive Secular Democratic Front’ (PSDF), proposed by her to take on the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led government in West Bengal.
Some 997 acres in Singur in Hooghly district, about 40 km from here, have been chosen by Tata Motors for its small car project which triggered a violent face-off between the state government and local farmers led by civil society groups and parties like Trinamul.
The protest against land acquisition for the car project had started Dec 1 last year by farmers in Singur under the banner of the Krishjami Raksha Committee.
It reached a flashpoint the next day as farmers clashed with police during the fencing of the acquired land even as Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya vowed to facilitate the unit on the disputed farmland.