New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday gave a fresh offer of talks to Trinamool Congress to resolve the raging row over Singur and Nandigram.
The offer came after one policeman was killed and 50 people arrested in clashes at Bhowanipur in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Thursday. The clash broke out when police tried to stop activists who were protesting against the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in nearby Nandigram.
Also on the same day, in Singur, angry protestors uprooted the fence put up around the site for a proposed Tata Motors car plant.
However, the Trinamool Congress has said that they would come for talks only after the government withdrew the notification for acquisition of farmland in both Singur andd Nandigram.
According to a report in news agency PTI, the CM had written to the Leader of the Opposition, Partha Chatterjee, for a bilateral discussion on February 13 for a 'peaceful and logical settlement', without referring to escalating violence
However, Chatterjee too said that the government must first withdraw the notification for acquisition. "The current situation involving land acquisition has arisen due to the policy of the state government," he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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