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Singur quiet a day after end of agitation

SINGUR: Singur was quiet on Monday. And all that remained were a bare podium stripped off its trappings and the “camps” of the Trinamool Congress and its allies, who had led a 15-day agitation outside the Tata Motors project site. The agitation was called off late on Sunday night.

People from the local decorator’s shop started bringing down the scaffoldings. Traffic zooms by on both the lanes of the Durgapur Expressway – first time since August 24 when Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee started the agitation demanding the handing back of 400 acres of land from the State that was allegedly forcibly taken away from farmers.

Though work at the Tata Motors plant was yet to start, following the settlement reached by the government and the Krishi Jami Jiban Jibika Raksha Committee but the atmosphere was conducive, with no thundering speeches by the Opposition leaders and loud jeers by the supporters to scare away workers. Only a few journalists walked about the site that was thronged by thousands of supporters every day, braving heat as well as rains.

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