We will continue our peaceful agitation.”
Replying to Mamata’s charge of violating the agreement, Bhattacharjee said the allegation was not correct. “The four-member committee set up with the objective of finding a solution had met several times and had also visited the plant site. But the Government and the agitators’ representatives could not agree on any issue. As a result I had to intervene and talk to Mamata Banerjee. The Government has gone to the maximum limit possible to offer 70 acres of land. It cannot go any further. Going beyond this would imply that the factory would not come up,” he said.