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Orissa allows Bardhan's meet near Posco's proposed plant site

'The government will allow the CPI leader, AB Bardhan to hold a meeting at Balitutha,' chief minister's principal secretary Bijay Patnaik said.

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Updated : May 18, 2010, 07:04 PM IST

The Orissa governent today decided to allow CPI general secretary AB Bardhan to address a meeting at the entry point to South Korean steel major Posco's proposed mega plant near Paradip where police action against protestors on May 15 had sparked a national outcry.

"The government will allow the CPI leader to hold a meeting at Balitutha," chief minister's principal secretary Bijay Patnaik told reporters after a review meeting on the situation in Balitutha.

Bardhan arrived in the state this afternoon for a three-day visit.

The state leaders of six other parties comprising CPI, CPI(M), Forward Bloc, SJP, RJD and JMM were scheduled to attend the meeting.

The district administration of Jagatsinghpur, which had clamped prohibitory orders at Balitutha, is likely to lift the order soon, official sources said.

The police had on May 15 cleared the area of anti-Posco agitators camping since January 26 resisting land acquisition for the project, by making lathi-charge, firing teargas shells and rubber bullets.

"We have cleared the road at Balitutha captured by a group of people in the name of opposition to Posco project," Jagatsinghpur superintendent of police Debadutt Singh said.

Rubbishing the charge of human rights violations, he said police had only cleared the road and not entered anyone's house.

The police force deployed in large number at Balitutha would remain, a senior police officer said.

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