Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Oct. 14: CPI-M general secretary Mr Prakash Karat today said the state government was “exploring possibilities” for setting up an alternative car plant at Singur after the Tata Motors’ small car project “had to be abandoned”. Mr Karat said this while responding to the Trinamul Congress chief Miss Mamata Banerjee's demand placed before the Prime Minister and the President today, for return of land to the farmers, acquired for the Tata project since the Tatas had relocated their project from Singur. Mr Karat didn't go into details of the plan about which the state transport minister and CPI-M state secretariat member, Mr Subhash Chakraborty, had been speaking for the past few days without any backing from the state industries department. “My response to the demand is that the state government is looking into the legal and technical aspects for working out plans for setting up an alternative car plant,” Mr Karat said. The CPI-M Central Committee, which ended its three-day session today, heard a report on the Singur fiasco and endorsed the state committee's plan to go on a propaganda offensive against the Trinamul-led "reactionary forces” that adopted “an obstructionist” strategy to “scuttle” the Nano project, the Left Front-government's development initiatives and the policy of industrialisation on the basis of agricultural growth. Mr Karat said the Tata group chief Mr Ratan Tata had also squarely blamed the Trinamul-led Opposition's “obstructionist” strategy for their decision to move out of Singur. The CPI-M will mobilise the people to foil such disruptive activities, since the Singur experience “doesn't mean a full stop to the industrialisation policy”, Mr Karat said adding that efforts would be made to “ensure that the LF-government can fulfil its goal for industrialisation and all round development of the state.” (END)
Protestors block Tata machinery shift from Singur
Statesman News Service
Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Oct. 14: Supporters of the Save Nano Committee (SNC) today prevented employees of a private company, engaged by Tata Motors Limited, from shifting some heavy machinery from the Singur plant.It was around noon when about 20 SNC supporters intercepted five vehicles in which a pay-loader machine and a few generator sets were being taken out of the Singur plant through gate number five, police said. Employees of the company ~ which was engaged by Tata's to dismantle the machines and shift them to other places ~ requested the agitators to let them go, but their request fell on deaf ears as the supporters sat on the factory gate demanding that Mr Ratan Tata change his decision to pull out from Singur. After waiting for a few minutes, the trucks were taken back to the project area. The factory gate remained blocked for several hours even after police intervened to remove the blockade. A senior district police officer said a team from Singur police station went to the spot after being informed of the incident. Policemen's request to withdraw the blockade was turned down by the SNC supporters, the officer added. “We want to make it clear that Tatas will not be allowed to shift machines from the project area. We will only allow entry of machines and not the exit of the same. Tatas will have to come back here since almost 90 per cent work on the project is complete,” said SNC convener Mr Sadai Koley. He added: “Those who were shifting the machines in trucks were requested to support our movement that was launched so that Tatas would stay at Singur." (END)
Source : The Statesman
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