Modi's open letter to Buddhadeb, Mamata

By Special Correspondent
The open letter was published in Ananda Bazaar Patrika
Dialogue with Opposition is a must on land acquisition issues
KOLKATA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has, in an “open letter” to his counterpart in West Bengal, told Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that given the work culture in the State, the situation is not yet one in which Tata Motors’ Nano project can come up, much that the latter would want it to.
Mr. Modi said that despite Mr Bhattacharjee’s efforts to usher in industrialization in West Bengal neither the party he belongs to nor his administration is yet totally by his side on the matter.
The letter that was published in Sunday’s edition of the Bengali daily Ananda Bazaar Patrika was being released through the newspaper with the intention that it reached the largest section of the State, Mr. Modi said.
It was written to clear any misunderstanding that might exist among the people of West Bengal that the Gujarat had snatched away the project from them, he added.
Tata Motors have decided to relocate their Nano project at Sanand in Gujarat that was to have come up at Singur.

Words of advice

Mr. Modi also had words of advice for Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee He has suggested that she shun negative agitation and not become ultra-left in attempts to counter the Left forces.
Instead, the right-wing path should be pursued in West Bengal to forge an alternative.
Citing the case of the Nano project, he told Ms. Banerjee, that in Gujarat even Opposition doesn’t engage in politics over industrialisation.
The task of creating something is difficult; but to destroy it takes a minute, he said.

‘Dialogue needed’

In his letter to Mr. Bhattacharjee he has admitted that in comparison to Gujarat the acreage of agricultural land in West Bengal is higher. It is necessary to have a dialogue with the Opposition on land acquisition issues as it was done in Gujarat.

Source: The Hindu

New plant: Subhas
Calcutta, Oct. 12: Bengal transport minister Subhas Chakraborty has said an automobile company would set up a plant in Singur following the Tata pullout.
“Just wait for six months. You will find another car manufacturing factory coming up there for which we have already started preparations. It will take one or two months for us to sort out legal complications and administrative matters,” Chakraborty told a television channel.
However, chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb said from Delhi tonight that he had no knowledge of another car manufacturer setting up a plant in Singur.
State transport secretary Sumantra Chowdhury, too, said he was not aware of “any such development”.
Source : The Telegraph

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