Statesman News Service
Kolkata, Oct 17 : The “open letter” written by the Tata group chief Mr Ratan Tata and published by a section of the media today triggered sharp political reactions with the Trinamul Congress threatening to sue him if he didn't tender an apology for “maligning” Miss Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamul-led Opposition, while Left Front junior partners ~ the RSP and the Forward Bloc ~ disapproved of the tenor and substance of the letter. The CPI-M gave tacit support to it.
Mr Partha Chatterjee, leader of the Opposition, said what appeared in the name of Mr Tata was “nothing but a slander campaign” against Mi]ss Banerjee and the Trinamul-led Opposition that spearheaded the agitation for return to the unwilling farmers the land forcibly acquired from them for the small car project at Singur.
The advertisement, he said, didn't bear the signature of Mr Tata, while the logo of the Tata group of companies was used.
Mr Tata blamed “vested interests” for his decision to relocate the project from Singur. "This is most libelous and intended to malign our party supremo and the Opposition combine fighting for the cause of the farmers who were forcibly dispossessed of their land,” he said.
The “so-called” open letter had been penned in a language as if the writer were a CPI-M politburo member, he asserted. Mr Tata openly canvassed for Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's industrialisation overdrive as if he were writing an election pamphlet for the CPI-M. "What else can one say when Mr Tata commands the youth of West Bengal to choose between Mr Bhattacharjee's policy and the Opposition-sponsored agitation,” Mr Chatterjee said.
“Mr Tata can join the CPI-M or he may take over Alimuddin Street replacing its state secretary Mr Biman Bose.Why is he holding brief for the state government ? Is it because he got land so cheap, soft loan at nominal interest, water and electricity at throwaway prices whereas he has to buy land in Gujarat at market prices ?” Mr Chatterjee said. Mr Kshiti Goswami, PWD minister and RSP leader, said the language used in the letter was uncalled for.
“Mr Tata as a citizen of a free country is free to hold his political views, but the dictating tone of the open letter is not proper. He seems to be offering lollipops to the youth. He is setting terms for the youth to exercise their political options which is not acceptable,” Mr Goswami said. Source: The Statesman
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