TOI
 
New Delhi, Aug 23: Refusing to budge an inch from her protest plans or that the land acquired for the vendors' park be returned, Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee will begin an indefinite agitation in Singur from Sunday.

The Trinamool Congress supremo has appealed to her partymen to lead a peaceful agitation at Singur, the site of the Tata Motors small car plant.

She has made it clear that her prime concern was the farmers of Singur, not the car factory. "We want industry to come up, but we don't want farmers to be sacrificed. Why talk only of Tatas, and not of Tapasi Malik and a dozen farmers of Singur who are dead?"

She claimed that she has information that CPM cadres may obstruct her journey to Singur, "but I've asked my party workers not to go for confrontation."

Banerjee said that if obstructed, her partymen would stage a satyagraha on the road.

Asked if she was ready to talk to the Tatas, she said "in principle, we would like Ratan Tata to concede our demand for return of 400 acre forcibly taken away from unwilling farmers."

Banerjee was also critical of Industry minister Nirupam Sen's meeting with Tata at a hotel here on Thursday night, saying the meeting aimed at "secretly plotting against the people of Singur".

The Trinamool supremo blamed the state government for the crisis at Singur and said it had not yet made public the land deal with the Tatas despite several demands.

She urged ruling Left Front partners RSP and Forward Bloc to join their indefinite dharna. "Our agitation will be peaceful and it will be a movement for the suffering masses," Banerjee told mediapersons.

"I would like RSP and Forward Bloc to join the dharna," she said, adding that 15 to 16 political parties and organisations would participate in the agitation.

Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, social activist Medha Patkar, journalist Kuldip Nayyar and writer Arundhati Roy are among them to be present there, she said.