By Subhadeep Saha
JALPAIGURI, Sept. 4: While the state and others are busy debating whether whether West Bengal would have to pay through the nose if the Tatas made an exit, the world has come crashing down for a humble rickshaw-puller of Jalapiguri. His son is employed as a worker at the Singur small car project. With work at the project now halted, the son is back home with no immediate future in sight. The father has taken up from where the son left and in his attempt to protect his son's job, he has sent a letter addressing Mr Ratan Tata, urging him not to leave Singur. Bimal Choudhury, a 64-yeal-old rickshawpuller and seasonal grass-cutter from Teesta Sarada Palli in Jalpaiguri, took great pains to educate his son Bankim, depriving himself and the rest of the family members some of the extravagances which he could have indulged in otherwise. The son rose to the occasion and cleared the ITI trade. He then found work as a trainee in the mechanical wing of the small car project at Singur on 9 July raising the hopes of his family. But all hopes came crashing down when the project authority asked Bankim to go home following the project's closure in view of the ongoing agitation. The son returned home last Saturday facing an uncertain future, sending his father and the rest of the family members in a stupour. “We have seven members in the family. Bankim is our only hope. If the project stops, we are back to our grass cutting days,” lamented the father Bimal Chowdhury. And so he decided to write to Mr Tata and is keeping his fingers crossed that the industrial giant would not leave Singur. This comes a day after a 65-year-old farmer, Sushen Santra, who had parted with his land voluntarily for the Singur small car project, poisoned himself to death at his Joymollah village residence. Family members of the deceased claimed that the Tata decision to consider relocating the Singur project had upset him. His three sons worked as wage labourers in an ancillary unit. His relatives say that Santra consumed poison because he apprehended that his three sons would lose their jobs.(END) Source : The Statesman
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