Earlier in the day, Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee met West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, who has stepped in to end the Singur deadlock, for the third time in the past three days.
Chatterjee, the leader of the Opposition in the assembly, accompanied by former Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi discussed the ongoing crisis with the Governor for about an hour.
Chatterjee, however, declined to disclose any details about the meeting.
With the Singur impasse continuing, the Governor had suggested a neutral mediator to end the impasse, and the Left Front government were not against this suggestion.
In a letter to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee last week, Gandhi had said that a person with no political or industrial affiliation be invited to act as an unbiased intermediator in the matter.
Gandhi also requested her to suggest a name or names and said he would request the West Bengal government to respond positively.
The TC chief had on Monday urged the Governor to take the initiative for talks in which her party would participate as it wanted an 'immediate solution'.
She, however, underlined that the talks should be on the issue of return of 400 acres to the 'unwilling' farmers at Singur.
Banerjee also said that work should resume at the Tata Motors Re 100,000 car plant, where there was no work for the fifth consecutive day.
"We want that work should take place at the Tata plant, at the same time, talks can also go on."
Image: Chairman of the Tata group, Ratan Tata gestures as he leaves after a press conference in Kolkata | Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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