A tense stand-off with farmers unwilling to give up their land threatens India's largest-ever foreign investment project, a USD 12 billion steel plant planned by South Korea's POSCO.
Opponents of the project have taken heart from events in neighbouring West Bengal, where plans to seize farmland for a chemicals complex were shelved after police killed 14 protesters.
"This has had a very good effect on the people struggling against the POSCO project," said protest leader Abhay Sahu. "This is an opportune time for us to move forward."
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