Kolkata: West Bengal's Singur area remained on the boil on Thursday with a group of women torching a part of the fencing for the controversial Tata Motors small car project there.
The incident took place early morning when women from displaced farmers' families set on fire the poles erected to demarcate the site for the project, said Singur Krishijami Raksha Committee (Save Singur Farmland Committee) leader Becharam Manna.
"Such incidents will continue. The farmers are still as militant," Manna said.
By the time police arrived from nearby camps, the women had disappeared. In a cat and mouse game, they reappeared after police left the scene and set on fire more poles. The farmers and their womenfolk torched at least 15 poles.
The police later put out the fire and deployed more personnel in the area. No one was arrested.
Work on the controversial project in Singur, 40 kilometre from here in Hooghly district, formally began on Sunday with a religious ritual, capping weeks of tension in the area with farmers, rights activists and political parties ranged against the government over the issue of land acquisition.
On Sunday too, some protestors had set ablaze the fencing.
Last week on January 16, a group of Trinamool Congress activists stormed into the land fenced off for the plant and uprooted poles and barbed wire.
On Monday, the protests moved to the heart of the capital Kolkata when women activists and Trinamool Congress workers smeared tar on the gate of the Tata Centre building.
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