%u201CWe won%u2019t let you go from here. You will be allowed to go only after our leader Arup Biswas says so. The land is a playground where we have cultural programmes throughout the year. We will never allow anyone to take over the land,%u201D a man said.
Contacted, the MLA did not beat about the bush. %u201CThe land belongs to the local club. We will not allow anybody to take over the land,%u201D he said.
By making that assertion, the MLA has thrown a direct challenge at the law of the land. On March 18, the Alipore magistrate court had ruled: %u201CJadavpur police should see that no breach of peace takes place and that the opponents are restrained from doing any wrongful act at the time of lawful construction of boundary wall in respect of the property. OC Jadavpur is directed to keep close vigil over the issue and maintain peace at the locality.%u201D
But the police, too, cited the Nandigram parallel and blamed Lolita for leaving the land vacant for many years. %u201CThe officer-in-charge told me that he did not want a Nandigram to happen there and asked me to leave,%u201D Lolita said.
She visited Writers%u2019 Buildings and submitted a letter to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee%u2019s office requesting him to intervene in the matter.
A couple of days ago, Lolita met senior Trinamul Congress leader and MLA Saugata Roy and complained that his party supporters have been encroaching on her land.
