No Singur project till I'm alive: Mamata

Marking a high-pitched return to the centrestage of anti-farmland acquisition stir, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she would not allow the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government to acquire agricultural land for industries or SEZs.

"Till the last drop of my blood and till I am alive I would not allow the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government to forcibly acquire farmland to set up industries or SEZs," Banerjee told a rally here.

The rally was her first in a month since she fell ill due during her 25-day hunger strike against Tatas' car project in Singur.

"I salute the people of Nandigram for putting up a stiff resistance to the government's move to acquire land for setting up a SEZ by the Salim group of Indonesia. Those who died while resisting the move have become martyrs," she told a huge rally organised by the Krishi Raksha (Farmers Protection) committee.