Nandigram, Jun 05: The Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh
Committee (BUPC), spearheading the protests against
acquisition of land for industry in Nandigram, Tuesday said
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had not taken it into
confidence before her talks with CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu.
"The Trinamool Chief neither took us into confidence nor
consulted the people of Nandigram before attending yesterday's
meeting with Basu," BUPC convenor Nanda Dulal Patro told agencies.
The CPM, he said, was trying hard to win over Banerjee
so that she did not insist on a full-fledged investigation by
the CBI or the setting up of a judicial commission into the
March 14 violence in Nandigram in which 14 people were killed
in police firing.
He warned Banerjee not to have any understanding with the
CPM or the left front government without consulting the
BUPC. If she did so, the BUPC would not listen to her, he
said.
Banerjee yesterday held talks with Basu in a bid to end
the stand-off over the acquisition of land for industry in
Nandigram and Singur.
Bureau Report
