New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TC) led activists blocked all important roads all over West Bengal for an hour on Saturday, after the Left Front distanced itself from taking any decision on TC leader Mamata Banerjee's Singur demand.
Mamata Banerjee has demanded that land at Singur, acquired for the Tata Motors project against the wishes of farmers, be returned to them.
A total of 402 acre owned by farmers at Singur from whom land had been taken without consent would have to be returned, she had said.
Though she had left the decision on the West Bengal government, that did not stop the activists from creating complete chaos in the state for over an hour on Saturday.
The protest comes just days after Mamata met CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu, where both indicated some movement forward on the Singur issue.
The meeting was also later endorsed by West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadev Bhattacharya.
Meanwhile, the CPI-M-led Left Front distanced itself from taking any decision on Mamata Banerjee's demand, putting the ball in the West Bengal government's court.
"The Left Front can only suggest, but it is not within its jurisdiction to instruct the West Bengal government what it should do with regard to the demands (made by Mamata during her meeting with Jyoti Basu) on the Singur project," chairman Biman Bose was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Bose, also the state secretary of the CPI-M, said the Left Front welcomed the June 4 meeting between Basu and Mamata, but insisted that the state government would take whatever steps needed in the light of what transpired during the talks.
If the Opposition wanted a discussion, Basu said, the state government was ready to talk as the Chief Minister had said so several times earlier.
(With inputs from PTI)
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