Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee yesterday (Dec 28,2006) night called of her indefinite hunger strike on the Singur issue following personal appeals by President A P J Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

"I am ending the fast because the country's top leaders, including President A P J Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, have requested me to do so", she said in a feeble voice at the stroke of midnight after being on hunger strike for the last 25 days.

"Addressing the media and about 300 of her party activists from the dais where she had been on fast protesting 'forcible' acquisition of farmland by West Bengal government for the Tatas' car project," Mamata said she would now go to a hospital for a check-up.