Mamata gets letter from Buddha

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee has sent a fresh letter to Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, who has been on a hunger strike against a car project in Singur for 25 days.

Bhattacharjee’s letter promises that the Government will consider Mamata’s allegation that farmers were forced to give their lands for Tata Motors small car project.

Banerjee is not impressed with Bhattacharjee’s 's offer and found no specific commitments, sources told CNN-IBN.

Asked if the party was satisfied with the letter, a leader said: "the question does not arise."

Trinamool leaders began a meeting after getting the letter and refused to say what the Chief Minister had said.

The Chief Minister has already indicated that the project will not be scrapped and he cannot ask the Tatas to leave Singur.

Trinamool leaders, too, are adamant and said they will not compromise on their demands. State Leader of Opposition Partha Chattopadhyay said his party would not contact the Chief Minister.

"Our views have been made known to him a number of times. Let the government contact us,” said Chattopadhyay.

The party has formed a medical committee to monitor Mamata’s health, which it said is deteriorating.

"Her blood pressure has fallen. She is complaining of muscle cramps and also pain in the chest and the abdomen. But she is refusing to take oral fluids with medicine and food supplement. She has been given respiratory support," said Trinamool Congress leader Sudershan Ghosh Dastidar.

Meanwhile, following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive on Wednesday to the Central authorities to extend medical help to Banerjee, the army's Eastern Command has kept a medical team on standby at the Command Hospital in Kolkata.

"We have kept a comprehensive medical team on standby. There are eight members in the team," army sources said.

The team, however, would intervene only if asked to do so by the civilian doctors attending on the TC chief, they said.

Bhattacharjee first wrote to Mamata on December 8 and requested her to give up her hunger strike.

"We are ready to discuss with you, or any of your (Trinamool) representatives, the Singur situation and the industrialisation process of the state. I hope you will keep my request," he had said.