Jyoti Basu invites Mamata for talks on Nandigram
In an attempt to end the standoff over West Bengal government's move to acquire farmland in Nandigram for industries, CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu invited Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to a meeting this evening.
By PTI |
KOLKATA: In an attempt to end the standoff over West Bengal government's move to acquire farmland in Nandigram for industries, CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu invited Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to a meeting this evening.
''Jyoti Basu rang me up and invited me to his Salt Lake residence for a discussion. He is an aged person. He has invited me and so I am going to meet him,'' Banerjee told the media here.
The meeting assumes significance as it would be held in the backdrop of the collapsed all-party meeting on Nandigram on May 24 from which the TC chief had walked out following sharp differences with West Bengal's CPI(M) over her insistence that the March 14 police firing there was a 'genocide'.
Senior CPI leader and Water Investigation minister Nandagopal Bhattacharya said Basu had taken a personal initiative and expressed the hope that it would help find a solution to the Nandigram issue.
''Nothing can be better than this,'' he said. Welcoming the move, RSP leader and PWD minister Kshiti Goswami said Basu was a leader of high stature and ''we hope for a positive outcome.''
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He said even if the TC supremo had walked out of the all-party meeting on the issue of 'genocide' at Nandigram, today's meeting was expected to bring about lasting peace at Nandigram. Download
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