Big names skip pro-CM ‘intellectuals’ Haldia visit
Express news service : Sat Nov 03 2012, 06:49 hrs
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The much hyped fact-finding visit of pro-Mamata "intellectuals" to Haldia turned out to be a flop with several big names giving it a miss. Prominent faces like Suvaprasanna, Samir Aich, Arpita Ghosh, Bibhas Chakraborty, Joy Goswami, Shaonli Mitra were nowhere to be seen. Instead, some obscure names like poet Prasun Bhowmick, advocate Joydeep Mukherjee, academician Amiya Chowdhury, writer Pachu Roy and others visited Haldia.
Curiously, a senior doctor of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Dr Prabir Banerjee, took a casual leave to be part of the team.
Though escorted by police vehicles, the team was not allowed entry to the dock. Bhowmick said: "We faced total non-co-operation from the dock authorities".
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