By IANS
Kolkata : An hour-long road blockade programme by the Trinamool Congress Monday to protest the suicide of a Singur farm labourer and the death of a Muslim youth after alleged police harassment was washed away by incessant rain in south Bengal.
While some Trinamool Congress supporters did take to the streets, especially in Park Circus area where 30-year-old Rizwanur Rahman lived, few party supporters were seen elsewhere.
Party leaders admitted that the protest did not have the desired effect though they agitated in some areas.
“The situation is so bad because of the rain but our people still observed a blockade in some areas between 12 noon and 1 p.m.,” Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra told IANS.
“In fact, owing to the flood-like situation we have cancelled our agitation programme in Singur Tuesday,” he said.
Sreekanta Shree, a daily wage labourer who reportedly lost his farmland for Tata’s Motors’ small car project in West Bengal’s Singur, committed suicide Saturday, prompting Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to announce a fresh stir.
Banerjee also clubbed the Singur agitation with the stir against the death of Rehman, whose body was found beside a railway track with head smashed, less than two months after he married Priyanka Todi, a Hindu girl, the daughter of an influential city businessman.
Earlier, Banerjee had announced a series of demonstrations and rallies across the state from Sep 25 to 28 to protest the West Bengal government’s failure to control price rise, growing atrocities on women and to press for return of land to unwilling farmers in Singur.