KOLKATA: A section of residents of Singur demanding that Tata Motors revoke its decision to relocate its Nano project took out a procession there on Sunday with some among them even threatening to prevent the shifting out of any equipment from the area.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee reiterated here later in the afternoon her decision to renew the agitation for the return of 400 acres acquired for the abandoned Tata Motors project (out of a total of 997.11 acres) after the Diwali festival later this month.
The decision to relocate the project was taken following the agitation led by the Trinamool Congress outside the project site launched there on August 24. The agitation was lifted following talks between Ms. Banerjee’s associates and the State government on the land issue on September 7, but as the former had then asserted, “not suspended.”
“The agitation will continue through continuous programmes,” Ms. Banerjee told journalists.
She also said her party was considering “what legal action can be taken” against Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group, for his “open letter” to the people of the State — one she condemned.
In his letter published in some newspapers here on October 17 Mr. Tata said it was up to the State’s people whether to support Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s government’s attempts to “to build a prosperous state with the rule of law…or would like to see the state consumed by a destructive political environment of confrontation, agitation, violence and lawlessness.”
The procession taken out by supporters of the “Singur Nano Bachao (Save Nano) Committee” comprising a section of Singur residents who have been demanding that the Tata Motors reconsider their decision to relocate the project and set it up there as originally planned wound their way through various villages shouting slogans in support of their demand.
Banners
They also demonstrated for a short while on the Durgapur Expressway outside the area that had been acquired for their project with banners that read: “Welcome Ratan Tata. We want industry, we do not want confrontation.”
The Trinamool Congress-led Krishijami, Jiban, Jibika Raksha (Save Farmland, Lives and Livelihood) Committee also staged a demonstration at Singur where an effigy of Mr. Tata was burnt. “This is in protest against his open letter (to people of the State) last week that was part of a conspiracy hatched by the Communist Party of India (Marxist),” Becharam Manna, a leader of the committee said. Source: The Hindu
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