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Tribal Communist Leader Manish Kunjam arrested for protesting against the land acquisition at Jagdalpur
25 February, 2007

Prabhat

What right the Tata Group has to disturb the peace of millions of Tribals,Farmers etc all over India?
Was brutal killing of Tribals at Kaling Nagar in Orissa last year not enough for the Tata's?
Is Singur not enough for Mr.Ratan Tata? Read more

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posted by Resistance 25.2.07, ,




Now a 'Singur' in Madhya Pradesh?
10 February, 2007

Bhopal, Feb 10 (IANS) A place in Madhya Pradesh may see a repeat of Singur, the area in West Bengal that is on the boil over land acquisition for a Tata Motors car project.
The state government is acquiring nearly 4,000 acres of land near the Dhar district's Pithampur industrial area for a world-class auto-testing track.

But the farmers in 10 villages who have been made to part with their land for the project are unhappy with the compensation package, giving the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) a chance to protest the government's decision to acquire farmland.

The track, approved by the central government, would be an international standard centre to provide testing facilities to Indian and foreign companies for all kinds of automobile machinery - one of the most significant initiatives in the automotive sector.

To be set up by the National Automotive Testing and Research and Development Infrastructure Project at a cost of Rs.10 billion, the track would be equipped with the facility of testing vehicles in various climatic conditions at different stages after which 'standardisation' certificates would be issued for vehicles produced in India and abroad.

'What makes the project more significant for Madhya Pradesh is because developed states like Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh were competing for this scheme,' Industries Minister Babulal Gaur said.

But opposition leader Jamuna Devi, who is also an MLA from Dhar, has threatened that if local farmers are subjected to injustice, a Singur-type protest will be launched. The BKS too is up in arms against the land acquisition.

Alleging that fertile land is being wrested from the peasants in tribal-dominated areas like Khandwa, Kalyansikhedi, Madhopur and Sagaur, Jamuna Devi has warned that farmers would take on the government if it continues with land acquisition.

She has also written a letter to BJP president Rajnath Singh, asking him to exhibit his might against farmland acquisition in Dhar.

'Thousands of acres of fertile land, belonging to farmers, is being acquired by the BJP government for being provided to the industry even as thousands of peasants are consequently facing starvation,' Jamuna Devi told Rajanth Singh urging him to direct the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government to halt the acquisition of land.

'We expect the same kind of opposition to the Pithampur project from the BJP as it displayed against the Tata Motors project in Singur in West Bengal,' she wrote.
Rajnath Singh had supported Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's protests against similar land acquisition at Singur for a Tata Motors small car project.

State BJP spokesman Umashankar Gupta, however, dismisses comparisons between Singur and Pithampur.
'The Dhar project belongs to the Congress-led central government where Devi's own party is in power. She should first ask her party leaders to scrap the project if her concern is genuine,' Gupta said.

But BKS has warned of an intensified campaign if the government does not mend its ways. 'The stir may turn violent if the track site is not shifted to a barren plot or adequate compensation is not offered to the farmers,' said Pop Singh Nagar, BKS state executive member.
BJP leaders in Dhar too seem to be opposed to the farmland acquisition.

'The compensation package is not satisfactory as it does not take care of the permanent loss to the next generation of farmers whose land is being acquired,' said senior BJP leader and former union minister Vikram Verma, who is also from Dhar.

He has written to Chief Minister Chouhan and Industry Minister Gaur but to no avail.

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posted by Bimal 10.2.07, ,




Jhajjar: farmers protest Reliance SEZ
03 February, 2007

In the wake of upsurges in Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal, more and more farmers are coming out to protest land acquisition for industrial projects. The latest flashpoint is Jhajjar, where India's private sector behemoth Reliance Industries is setting up the most ambitious Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

While the Reliance plan to invest Rs.300 billion ($6.80 billion) to set up the SEZ on about 25,000 acres of land between Gurgaon and Jhajjar, 65 km from the national capital, had left the business world impressed, farmers and villagers here are not amused.

They question the Haryana government's right to decide about their lives and livelihoods without even informing them. "We had no idea about this project as everything that came to us was written in English. We were just asked to sign on the papers," said Pandit Netanand, head of the Jhajjar village council. "I want to know why the state government is working hand in glove with Reliance. We will fight, we will lay down our lives, but not give our land on their terms and conditions," Netanand told IANS.

Angry farmers of Jhajjar marched down Thursday to the deputy commissioner's office to submit a memorandum detailing their demands. The farmers have said in the memorandum that they are not in favour of transferring the ownership of the land to Reliance and would prefer to give land only on lease.

They have also demanded reservation of 25 percent of jobs in the proposed SEZ to the residents of this village as a legally binding requirement. Moreover, they want to choose the land for the project in such a manner that the village population is not displaced.

The farmers want to negotiate directly with the firm the compensation for the families that stand to lose their farmlands as well as the terms and conditions of the lease.

A copy of the memorandum signed by around 3,000 farmers will also be sent to the president, the finance ministry, the commerce and industry ministry, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Though Jhajjar deputy commissioner Suprabha Dahiya refused to comment on the issue, she said: "This is the first time I have received any petition from the farmers.

We are only executing bodies and we don't have much role to play in this. I will forward the memorandum to the concerned authority."

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Trident Land Acquisition Row
02 February, 2007

35 farmers, 5 cops hurt in clashSushil

Barnala, January 31: At least 40 persons, 35 farmers and five policemen, were injured when the police used plastic bullets, teargas shells and resorted to lathi-charge to prevent farmers from entering the land acquired by the state government for the Trident Group here today.

The two sides clashed when farmers attempted to demolish the factory's boundary wall and forcibly enter the 321 acres of land at Fatehgarh Chhanna and Dhaula villages. However, the police foiled the attempt.

The administration had deployed fire engines, riot-control and police vehicles and over 500 policemen, including mounted police, around the disputed land.

Besides, the police had set up 12 checkpoints at different places en route to the two villages from here. Agitated farmers attacked the police with sticks to gain access to the acquired land.
The conflict, which continued for about one and half hours, ended when farmer leaders asked the activists to return to a village gurdwara to hold a meeting there.

The farmers were led by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) press secretary Hardip Singh Tallewal.

SAD (A) president Simranjit Singh Mann also participated in the agitation.
He termed the police action brutal and announced that his party would thwart the process of possession of the land by the Trident Group.

He also sought an independent inquiry by an international agency, as they had no faith in inquiries by the judiciary or government agencies.

Earlier, over 1,000 farmers from various districts assembled at the village gurdwara in the morning. They were addressed by BKU (Ugrahan) state president Joginder Singh Ugrahan, press secretary Hardip Singh Tallewal, finance secretary Darshan Singh, BKU (Dakonda) general secretary Buta Singh Burj Gill, BKU (Ugrahan) Sangrur district secretary Darbara Singh Chhajla, among others.

The leaders criticised the state government for acquiring the land and SP (Headquarters) S.P.S. Parmar told the TNS that before the police took action, Tapa SDM J.P. Singh made an announcement to the farmers to refrain from coming within 200 yards of the boundary wall of the factory, as per the local court orders.

He also termed the assembly of the farmers illegal, adding that Section 144 of the CrPC was already in force in the area.

Mr Parmar added that when farmers did not pay heed to their warnings and continued marching closer to the boundary wall, the police fired teargas shells and resorted to lathi-charge.
The police used plastic bullets in self-defence, as farmers attacked them with sticks causing injuries to five policemen, he added.

SinguritisFarming-vs-SEZ clashes bode ill

THE Singur spark seems to be igniting fires at far-off places. The latest conflagration has taken place near Barnala in which 40 persons were injured. It will be foolhardy to think as some government functionaries have done that the trouble arose merely because of the mischief played by politicians.
There seems to be genuine anger among the farmers who have been deprived of their land and vocation unceremoniously. The Centre has promised to bring about a comprehensive policy about land acquisition which will safeguard the interests of the farmers.

Unfortunately, this assurance has not seeped down to the grassroots. Instead, shortsighted leaders and bureaucrats have allowed the situation to deteriorate to the stage where they-vs-us battle-lines are being drawn. If remedial measures are not put in place earnestly, this friction can cause more tensions.

It is nobody's case that the idea of special economic zones should be abandoned. On the contrary, they are essential for the country's progress. But they should be set up in a way that instead of appearing to be an adversary, they come to be looked as a boon.

Unfortunately, the government has not looked at the plight of the farmers sympathetically. Being asked to abandon the village and land which have been their abode for generations is a heart-rending bolt from the blue.

Heavy-handed methods adopted by the government make it worse. To cap it all, the farmers have to cope with babudom which is heartless and corrupt. Obviously, the sense of being robbed is strong among those whose land is taken over.

The way land prices are shooting up all over Punjab, the compensation given to the farmers is generally peanuts. They cannot buy a chunk of land of the same size elsewhere and at the same time set up a new household.

Their feelings can be assuaged only if they are made partners in the new-found prosperity which can come to their area. Right now, they are only given a lump-sum and told to get out. Leaving your hearth and home for even a development project like a highway or a dam can be traumatic.

Doing so, so that a few moneybags can earn their millions appears downright exploitative to petty land-owning families. Ways have got to be found to be ensure that industrial units in Punjab are set up without causing grievous hurt to the farmers and their livelihood.

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posted by Bimal 2.2.07, ,




Corporate land grab: CPI (ML) calls for nation-wide campaign

BHUBANESWAR: The Communist Party of India (ML) will organise a nation-wide campaign against corporate land grab in the name of industries and special economic zones (SEZs).

Congratulating the people of Kalinga Nagar on their sustained resistance to land acquisition, national general secretary of the party Dipankar Bhattacharya told mediapersons here that the party supported the struggle against corporate land grab.

Criticising the Centre for allowing SEZ projects, Bhattacharya said SEZ had two meanings. ‘Special exemption zone’ for the capitalists and ‘special exploitation zone’ for the poor farmers.

Stating that the capitalists are going to reintroduce the zamindari system, he urged the Centre to immediately scrap the Land Acquisition Act and the Special Economic Zone Act, 2005.

Bhattacharya said the party was extending support to the ongoing struggle of Dadri farmers in Uttar Pradesh, people of Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal and Kalinga Nagar.

A massive rally will be organised in Delhi on March 23, the martyrdom day of Saheed Bhagat Singh, to protest the massive land acquisition for industries and SEZ projects, he said, adding that similar rallies would be organised in all the states.

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Farmers launch agitation agianst Telcon

Kharagpur, Feb. 1: After Singur and Nandigram, farmers in West Midnapore’s Kharagpur have launched an agitation against the proposed land acquisition for a payloader plant of Tata group company Telcon.
About 1,280 acres are scheduled to be acquired for the project.
Yesterday, about 200 farmers from four mouzas — Ghaylageria, Chakganesh, Baradiha and Jafala — marched to additional district magistrate (general) Smaraki Mahapatra and submitted letters of objection to her. In their letters, the farmers gave details of their landholdings and informed the ADM that they would not give up their land for any industrial project.
Jagannath Mallik of Ghaylageria, who submitted a letter, claimed he was the president of the village committee of the CPM peasants’ wing, All India Krishak Sabha, and said that the plot he cultivated — a little over a bigha — provided him for six months.
“I also cultivate vegetables on 15 cottahs beside my house. I will not give up my land or my house,” said Mallik.
Amrit Dolui of Baradiha village owns a little over an acre and said he and his family of seven were totally dependent on the land. “I cultivate two crops of paddy, mustard and other oilseeds. If the government takes our land away, how will we live?” he asked.
Anath Bhuniya, who owns four bighas in Ghaylageria, cultivates flowers on one-and-a-half bigha and paddy on the rest of the plot. “The land is my only source of income. I won’t give it up,” he said.
The villagers have set up a krishi jomi raksha (save farmland) committee to oppose the land acquisition. “During the next few days we expect about 1,250 farmers to submit letters of objection in two phases,” said Panchanan Pradhan, district secretary of the committee in Kharagpur.
However, district magistrate B.P. Barat said: “This is not the procedure to register objections. First, we will serve notices to the landowners. Farmers can then lodge their objection. The objections submitted yesterday are politically motivated.”
The four mouzas, dominated by the CPM, have mostly single-crop and two-crop land with paddy being the main crop.
The CPM in Kharagpur said party leaders are trying to convince villagers about the benefits of a big unit like Telcon. “Many of them fail to understand that the proposed industry will change the area’s economy for the better. We are speaking to them,” said Mihir Pahari, secretary of Kharagpur rural zonal committee

Mamata battle

Calcutta, Feb. 1: Mamata Banerjee is preparing to strengthen her party following reports of “alienation’’ among a section of the Trinamul Congress over losing out to ultra Leftists in the movement against acquisition of farmland.
Mamata has written to the party’s district and block committees seeking their suggestions.
The Trinamul Congress chief has also convened a meeting on February 9 to discuss how to “rebuild’’ the party and work out a strategy to intensify the agitation against farmland acquisition.
“Mamatadi has now realised that her party is not getting due importance (in the land agitation) and that Trinamul functionaries are not happy (that the party is losing its grip). That’s why she decided to write to party leaders in the districts,’’ a party MLA and close aide of Mamata said
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Orissa farmers rise against Mittal
26 January, 2007

Bhubaneshwar: Arcelor-Mittal’s mega-budget steel project in Orissa has run into rough weather. The question is, if Orissa Chief Minister will also follow footsteps of West Bengal CM Budhdhadeb Battacharjee—who did not let protests and political turmoil come in the way of Tata’s investment in Singur? Mittal’s Rs 40,000 crore SEZ project along-with South Koreas POSCO are being touted as the biggest investment that Orissa government is welcoming with open arms.
But the projects being placed on multi-crop land has stirred farmers rage for whom the land is their only source of earning.

"We will not allow Mittal steel to come up here. We will not give away our lands as they are our only source of livelihood,” Keonjhar farmer Phulamani said.


The Orissa government claims that it has the best Rehabilitation and Resettlement policy for the displaced people. Chief Minister Patnaik had clearly said that he would only allow the single-crop land to be used for industrial purposes.


"We have selected semi-urban areas where various IT industry projects are also coming up. We are being careful about giving away only the one-crop land for the SEZ project." Patnaik said.
However, Keonjhar farmers say that the CM is giving mere ‘lip service’. “We give an ultimatum to the government. If they want to set up plant, they should look for barren land rather than snatching our fertile crop land," said farmer Hrudayaballav Rout.


People from 17 villages in the area took out a protest march on Saturday to the district Collector’s office protesting the move. "They gave a memorandum saying that since it is a multi crop fertile and irrigated land it should not be handed over for the project," Keonjhar Collector B B Mohapatra, said.


Though the state government is yet to demarcate the exact land that would be acquired for the Mittal project, going by the protest in Keonjhar it seems the affected people are not ready to buy governments’ claims at any cost.


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Singur fence posts set on fire

Singur (Hooghly), Jan. 25: Farmers opposed to land acquisition in Singur twice set fire to fence posts at the Tata car plant site early this morning.

One of the burnt posts.
Around 5.30 am, a group of villagers wrapped jute bags soaked in kerosene around 10 wooden posts and set them on fire at Beraberi, about 50 km from Calcutta. Police arrived about half an hour later and doused the flames.
An hour later, a group of women came to the site and set fire to the posts again. The police gave chase but could not catch anybody.

A police team later raided two clubs in adjoining Bajemelia in search of the culprits but did not arrest anyone.
This is the third time that villagers have set fire to the fence posts since January 21, when the Tata Motors authorities performed bhoomi puja.

In Calcutta, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee reviewed the situation with chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb, industries secretary Sabyasachi Sen and other officers.

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A Singur in The Making

Public Sector Displacement

NTPC’s coalmining venture faces stiff opposition from farmers who won’t leave their land and from experts who fear damage to prehistoric megaliths

Sixty-five-year-old Chandru Sao, 65, a farmer at Barkagaon in Hazaribagh district in northern Jharkhand, says his family has never had to go hungry, thanks to the seven acres of fertile farmland that he owns.

But these are desperate times — the public sector giant National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has started the process of acquiring land for its maiden, ambitious coalmine project at Punkhri-Barwadih, a small town 30 kilometres southwest of Hazaribagh town. Sao says he would rather die than be parted from his land. Thousands of farmers, small and big, in Barkagaon block of Hazaribagh face the same predicament.

With tempers rising, the sleepy hamlets around Punkhri-Barwadih have all the makings of turning into another Singur – a flashpoint of people’s violent resistance to the prospect of losing their fertile farmland to an industrial venture.

Apart from the loss of over 10,000 acres of well-irrigated three-crop farmland, and dense forests, NTPC’s planned opencast coalmine is likely to obliterate, or at the very least damage irreparably, Punkhri-Barwadih’s megaliths — some of the last vestiges of a prehistoric civilisation which flourished in the region.

The Rs 4,000-crore Punkhri-Barwadih project is NTPC’s first ever foray into coalmining. Scheduled to commence operations in December 2007, it will displace some 14,000 families.

In November 2006, a mob of thousands of farmers tore down NTPC’s project-site office at Barkagaon. Six were arrested and there seems to be a lull for now.
But, as a Tehelka investigation discovered, that is because villagers in the remote hamlets in this Naxal-infested region are busy re-organising themselves for a stronger assault before the process of land acquisition begins. Read More>>>

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Press Release
25 January, 2007

(The following is a press Note released in a Press Conference on 21st Jan 2007 soon after the Anti- Displacement Conclave in Ranchi, Jharkhand attended by scores of organisations from several states)

No Displacement; No Rehabilitation; Only People’s Development

Today the vast sections of the people have been subjected to the worst kind of socio-economic crisis in the name of development. Today more and more tribals, dalits, minorities and the poorest of the poor are brutally removed from their forests, fields, lands, homes and cultures. They are being evicted in thousands from their lives and livelihoods. The powerful imperialist forces and their lackeys in the sub-continent are on their bid to capture the natural resources and perpetrate ruthless exploitation of labour. The people are rendered defenceless in the process of the dreaded Ds--Displacement, Disorganisation, Destitution and Decimation.

It is at a time that the need to unite and bring together all the fighting forces at the ground level against all forms of displacement under a single platform was mooted. And hence this preparatory meeting being held in Ranchi on the 20, 2tst of January, 2007. In this meeting, representatives of organizations and individuals from various states such as Jharkhand, Bengal, Haryana, Orissa, Delhi, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh deliberated on the strategies to carry forward the movement against displacement at the sub-continent level. ‘No to Displacement in any form’, was the firm resolve of the Meet.

The loot of the Indian people started after the advent of British rule with the super-imposition of the principle of Eminent Domain that virtually extinguished the natural right of the communities over their habitat and livelihood. This imperialist paradigm continued even post-1947 and despite the adoption of a new constitution. The special provisions for recognition and honouring the tribal people’s right under the constitution has been blatantly ignored that has sharpened the resentment of the people against the exploitative state.

After the creation of the new states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand at the instance of the imperialists this loot of the resources of the people has been facilitated under the new regime of globalization and liberalization. The surfeit of MOUs running over millions and millions of dollars has been executed without taking the people into confidence. The Anti-displacement meet rejected this development with disdain it deserves in the spirit of Tana Bhagat’s Resolve against the British authority—“Land is created by God, We are God’s children, Pray, from where has the state appeared?” The Anti- Displacement Meet in Ranchi called on the people to defend their habitat and their livelihood resources against the imperialists and the servile state.

While farmers who are committing suicide with agriculture being rendered increasingly non-viable, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are being set up throughout the country as ‘deemed foreign territories.’ These are devices to divert people’s attention as the logic of a more brutalized expropriation of the rural economy is ruthlessly unfolding. The Anti-Displacement Meet called for the rejection of the National Agricultural Policy 2000 that has once again ignored the land reforms agenda and unabashedly embraced the corporatisation of agriculture.

The Anti-Displacement Meet rejected the entire scheme of Displacement-Rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is an illusion that is used to co-opt the top-ten by the imperialists. Even the affected people of Bhakhra, the ‘first temple of modern India’ still awaits for their much-promised rehabilitation.

Extensive lands in Hatia and Rourkela had already been acquired that are without use. Let the State first place before the people the status of the already affected whose number runs into crores. Hisab Do (Give Account) is the call to the state before it decides to take even an inch of land that is the inheritance of the people. Let the state prepare ‘Rehabilitation Plans’ for these people and come clean with concrete results. For the people of India, the story Post-1947 can be summed up as ‘an unbroken history of broken promises, dysfunctional programmes and blatant violation of laws, constitution and human rights.’

Dr. BD Sharma (Bharat Jan Andolan_, KN Pandit (Trade union leader), B P Kesari (Jharkhand Vistapan Virodhi Samanwyaya Samiti Co-ordinator), Shashi Bhushan Pathak (Civil Rights Activist), D Barla (Journalist & Anti-displacement Activist), Rashmi Kathyayan (Advocate), Tridib Ghosh, and several others from various orgnisations participated in the discussion of the draft note on displacement. Earlier GN Saibaba (Revolutionary Democratic Front) presented the concept note on displacement that was to set the debate regarding the strategies to be undertaken in fighting the complex and challenging question of displacement that is affecting various sections and peoples of the sub-continent.

Around 100 organisations from different parts of the country and various intellectuals have expressed their consent to actively be part of the Movement against Displacement. These include organizations from Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, the North East, Haryana, Kerala and Delhi.

The Anti-Displacement Meet while stressing the need to bring all the struggling organizations and the people under a single platform have given a RANCHI CHALO call towards convening the First Conference and Massive Rally on the 22, 23 March 2007. Towards this, a preparatory committee of all the participating organizations and a working committee to convene the conference and rally was also formed in the Anti-Displacement Meet.

Singed by B.D. SHARMA & G.N. SAIBABA And
attended by representatives of anti-displacement
organisations from several part of India.

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Protest against Tata
16 January, 2007

Bonnet brigade strikes, Tata team escapes

Singur/Calcutta, Jan. 15: A team of Tata and government officials was forced to leave Singur through an unplanned route today after being confronted by a group of people who thumped the bonnets of their cars and threatened to pull them out on their way to the city.
All doors of the two cars were locked and the panes rolled up. The hoodlums could not get hold of the officials.

Before the situation could spin out of control, the cars — escorted by a police jeep — backed away, took another route and left the place where the Tatas plan to set up their “dream project”.

In Calcutta, home secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray said the incident was not serious. “The protesters had surrounded their car and were trying to talk to them.”

Police said Suryavanshi Singh, a Tata official overseeing work on the Singur project, Apurba Banerjee of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation and S. Bhattacharya, a senior consultant, went to the Gopalnagar panchayat office today.

They were returning to Calcutta after a meeting with the panchayat chief over a Jamshedpur trip by members of the rural body when a bunch of Save Farmland Committee members led by social activist Anuradha Talwar tried to block their way.

Kalyani Pal, the panchayat pradhan, said: “They are taking panchayat members to Tatanagar to show us their project and community development programmes. We are scheduled to leave tomorrow and the officials came here for a final word with us.”

Talwar and the members of the Save Farmland Committee were holding a meeting at Sanapara More when Becharam Manna, its convener, spotted two cars and a police jeep approaching the Durgapur Expressway. “Suddenly they became furious and ran in front of the cars. They first thumped the bonnet of the Ambassador in which Banerjee and Bhattacharjee were travelling,” said Asit Pal, the Hooghly additional superintendent of police.

“Another section of people led by Manna ran towards Singh’s Tata Indigo, which was behind the Ambassador. They started pulling the doors to drag out Singh when four policemen got off their jeep and took them on,” Pal added.

During the scuffle between the villagers and the police, the cars reversed and drove away.
Asked if all Tata teams visiting Singur were accompanied by police escorts, the home secretary said: “We give them police cover discreetly to ensure that such incidents don’t occur.”

A Singur police officer said that from the number of prot-esters, it did not look like a scheduled scheduled programme. “They saw the cars and decided to stop them.”

Banerjee has filed a complaint with the Singur police station against Anuradha.

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