The Trinamool Congress-led Opposition and a high level government panel  have agreed to meet again on Sunday.

A press statement issued by Raj Bhavan here after the meeting that was presided over by West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, said both the sides went into greater detail on the prospects of a land-based rehabilitation scheme in and around the Nano project site at Singur. “The governor trusts that the discussion will lead to a satisfactory conclusion on Sunday or on Monday” it said.

However, it is still not very clear when the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee would lift her indefinite dharna before the Nano plant at Singur although she has, for the time being, kept in abeyance all her previously announced political programmes at the site of the siege. The governor, it is learnt, would be meeting Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacherjee at Raj Bhavan at 11 am on Sunday and may invite  Banerjee too for direct talks.

Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee told newsmen that talks will be resumed on Sunday. Asked whether talks were positive, he replied: “I don’t say it is negative.”

Land rehab package
Even though the state government has accepted in principle the land for land formula and agreed to part with around 150 acres of land, some within the project site and the rest around the plant, TMC-led Save Farmland Committee is understood to be pressing hard for an elaborate and comprehensive “land rehabilitation package” as suggested by the governor himself. According to sources, the state government agreed to hand over 47 acres held by WBIDC, 27 acres owned by the state power department within the factory complex, along with a 43 acres land being held by the state.

Besides, there is also five acres of unclaimed land which the state is ready to offer. In addition to this, the state panchayat department has identified farmland nearby and if any “unwilling farmer” is eager to have farmland, the state would finance his purchase of such land so that he could resume his traditional lifestyle.

The government has accepted the Opposition’s demand to hand over a copy of the deal with the Tata Motors. In order to further untie the knot, the government is on the hunt for further land or some other package to induce the Opposition into a final agreement.

The LF chairman Biman Bose who is currently in New Delhi to attend the party’s two-day Politburo meeting, will rush to the city to chair an emergent session of the Left Front which will be attended by the chief minister also.