By Uday Basu
KOLKATA, Sept. 7 : The Singur accord scripted almost single-handedly by the Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, in the presence of Governor Mr Gopalkrishna Gandhi, whose sagacity and benign presence alone made the impossible possible, is as momentous a politico-economic development as land reforms spearheaded by the Left Front during its 30-year regime. It was a defining moment for the state when the two protagonists ~Miss Banerjee and chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ~ gave final touches to the pact that signalled the beginning of a new economic order for the state where industry and agriculture will grow hand in hand and neither will try to throttle the other. The Singur saga hopefully brings to an end the haughty, Stalinist economic approach of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-government that set more store by industry than by agriculture. The biggest winner of the epic struggle between industry and agriculture that the Singur project triggered and the abortive Nandigram mega chemical hub project with its months of blood-letting, alleged rape, police brutality and naked use of muscle power by CPI-M-backed goons epitomised is, of course, the state's 80 million people. But, it's the victory of the forces, led by Miss Banerjee, that fiercely resisted the Marxist conspiracy to gift the most strategically located, fertile land to industrialists. The way Mr Bhattacharjee had been running the government to crush revolt by farmers against the Marxists’ imperial design to let industries rule the roost created the impression that there was no people's government in place and that the state government was captive in the hands of industrialists. The Tata group chief, Mr Ratan Tata, was dictating terms to the Marxist chief minister who parroted his stand that he would “move” out if the entire 997 acres acquired through force and chicanery weren't given. The Trinamul chief will emerge as the latest champion of the farmers, as she has finally succeeded in defeating the conspiracy to uproot them from their lands and also ensured that industry will flourish. In the final analysis, the upshot of the Singur battle is that Miss Banerjee will go to the people in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls as a “new leader” for the rural poor and Mr Bhattacharjee as the “lost leader”.
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