A Trinamool Congress delegation led by Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly Partha Chatterjee which reached Nandigram on Sunday morning, registered its strong protest with East Midnapore police superintendent S S Panda against the shifting of the CRPF camps.

Hundreds of women and children who have been living in the refugee camps, ran to the CRPF personnel and requested them not to move out as the latter began packing up their belongings for their new destination.
“We have been asked by the DGP, West Bengal, to shift our five camps from the present location. We have also been asked to work in the area of responsibility to be assigned by Mr  Panda,” DIG Alok Raj told Deccan Herald over telephone from Nandigram.

Asked to explain the reasons behind this sudden decision, he said: “I have no idea as to why we are now being asked to shift. It was the DGP who ordered us to set up the camps initially there.” The CRPF DGP attended a meeting with his counterpart at Nandigram earlier in the day where a decision on relocating the camps was taken.

Meanwhile, in another development, Kshiti Goswami, the RSP minister in the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government, who offered to quit in the wake of Nandigram violence, met eminent poet and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Shankhya Ghosh at his residence apparently to seek his opinion on continuance of the party in the CPM-led government.

Goswami declined to speak to reporters after the meeting which lasted an hour. RSP will be deciding in a week on the fate of Goswami who has so far stuck to his decision to resign in protest against the happenings in Nandigram.