Siliguri, Nov. 6: The 26 workers of Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate who had been on an indefinite hunger strike since Monday withdrew their agitation today after Jalpaiguri district magistrate Vandana Yadav wrote to Tata Tea to reopen it by November 13.

The workers had been fasting on the subdivisional office premises in Malbazar.

With the management leaving the estate and declaring indefinite suspension of work on September 14, workers of Nowera Nuddy had resorted to demonstration earlier before starting the hunger strike from Monday.

This morning, the situation grew tense as workers of Batabari, Damdim and Rungamuttee, three other gardens owned by Tata Tea in the Dooars, demonstrated in their respective gardens for two hours, blaming the management for the closure.

In the afternoon, two delegations of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad met the chief secretary at Writers’ Buildings in Calcutta and the Jalpaiguri district magistrate in her office.

“The district magistrate told us that she was sending a letter to the company, asking it to reopen the garden,” said John Barla, president of the Dooars-Terai branch of the Parishad.