As tension prevailed at the proposed Posco project site at Gobindpur village under Dhinkia panchayat, 10 platoons of armed police conducted flag march on Monday. Activists of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti, the anti-Posco outfit opposing the proposed steel plant of South Korean firm, today had a face-off with the police.
Activists of five political parties — CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc, Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal — too staged a dharana in the city to oppose the land acquisition.