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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and social activist Medha Patkar were on Sunday prevented by police from coming here to campaign against the acquisition of land for a Tata Motors project as tension prevailed in the area over the fencing of the site for a car plant.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

SINGUR (West Bengal): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and social activist Medha Patkar were on Sunday prevented by police from coming here to campaign against the acquisition of land for a Tata Motors project as tension prevailed in the area over the fencing of the site for a car plant.

Banerjee, who was heading to this town in Hoogly district from Islampur in north Bengal, was stopped by police and forced to turn back to Kolkata in the early hours.

She told newsmen at her residence, "I am determined to go to Singur. Police atrocities there are nothing short of goondaism to gag the voice of the opposition."

Warning the administration of "serious consequences", she said she would decide on her future course of action after a meeting of a 20-party alliance later in the day.

Patkar, who was detained here on Saturday and taken to a Kolkata guesthouse, refused to alight from the police van. After spending the night in the van, she reached Chandanagore near here on Sunday morning, when she was stopped again by police near Konnagar.

Huge police contingents were deployed at Beraberia, Bajemeli and Ghaserberi villages, the scene of police action on Saturday against protestors, as fencing work resumed at the Tata Motors site at 9.30 am, officials said.

Prohibitory orders continued to be in force in the area.

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