No talks with Buddhadeb: Mamata

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said there would be no talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee on the Nandigram and Singur stand-off as he lacked "credibility".

"When I was on fast in December last year on the Singur issue, the chief minister had written to me for talks. But six months have passed and he has made no commitment that unwilling farmers would be given back their land. There can be no talks with a person who has no credibility," Banerjee said.

She was addressing a massive rally to commemorate 'Martyrs Day' in memory of 13 Youth Congress (YC) activists killed in police firing heralks, the TC supremo said, as the chief minister's hands were stained with the blood of the 14 victims of police firing at Nandigram.

Till her party's demands for justice for the victims of the March 14 firing at Nandigram were met and land "forcibily acquired" for the Tata Motors' project at Singur were returned, there could be no talks, Banerjee said.

"It is a decision of the party," she said, adding that the CPI(M) could purchase most, but not the Trinamool.

"As long as we live, we will live with our heads held high and never surrender to the CPI(M)," she said.