Mollah bows to party diktat,drops Singur rally plan

Over the last few days,the MLA has been evasive,with his mobile phone switched off for two consecutive days.

The CPM is gearing up for a number of mass contact programmes. The first one is on July 6,when the Left Front will hold a meeting in Singur.

Senior CPM leader and state committee member Rabin Deb said,“Abdul Rezzak Mollah was asked not to go to Singur by the party and he obeyed the order. We have programmes in Singur which will be organised by the district Left Front. On July 6,our senior leaders of Hooghly district will hold a meeting in Singur.”

Sources in the CPM said this meeting is a “test drive” to judge the mass appeal of the Left parties in the area since they suffered a huge erosion in support base after the Singur movement. If the meeting is successful,senior leaders from Kolkata will soon hold meetings and mass agitation movements in Singur,said a senior CPM leader.

After the Calcutta High Court struck down the law undoing the Singur land acquisition,Mollah announced that he would organise an “Occupy Singur” movement on the lines of “Occupy Wall Street” for the benefit of the unwilling farmers.

During his tenure as land reforms minister,Mollah had openly protested against the procedure of land acquisition in the Singur area. Moreover,after the state government law was announced as unconstitutional by the court,Mollah joined a convention by the pro-Naxal CPIML and announced his programmes on Singur.