KolkataWest Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was lobbying in Delhi for a 'damage control' exercise after the Nandigram killing, well aware that without the Centre's help the incident cannot be covered up, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday(Apr 1,2007) alleged.

"He (Bhattacharjee) has undertaken a damage control exercise by using the UPA government. Without Delhi's help he cannot cover up Nandigram incident," Banerjee told reporters here when asked about the Chief Minister's meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday.

She said the Central government cannot remain an onlooker only because the CPI-M was extending support to the government and must intervene when the "LF Government has unleashed a state-sponsored terrorism".

"Despite our repeated requests, why has the Prime Minister not visited Nandigram?" she asked.

She alleged that "CPI-M activists continued to unleash terror" at Nandigram and Kehjuri and claimed that the body of a boy was recovered during the day.

She said they would apprise the Centre and the President of the ongoing terror at Nandigram. "If required, we will take a decision of meeting the President".

The Left Front government, she demanded, must cancel all SEZs in the state and return all forcibly-acquired farm land. The land acquisition act of 1894 must also be scrapped, she demanded.