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The Left Front Chairman, Biman Bose, has said that there will be no acquisition of land in Nandigram where 14 protesters were killed in police firing on Wednesday, Sahara Samay sources said. The decision was taken in an important meeting of the Left Front today. Police force will also be withdrawn from Nandigram, Bose added. Now, the issue of Special Economic Zone in Nandigram has been put on hold following the bloody violence there which killed some 14 people and injured many others. It is learnt that the Forward Bloc, an important constituent of the Left Front government in West Bengal, had on Friday threatened to quit the coalition if Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya did not backtrack on his stance on the land acquisition for industry that led to violence in Nandigram. In the 294-member West Bengal assembly, Forward Bloc has 23 members while the total number of seats by the Left Front is 235. CPI-M has 176 seats.