Saturday, December 09, 2006
Mamata intensifies movement, mass fasting at Singur - Journalists suffer Police lathi charge
Dec 10: Mamata stated that any organisation or individual opposed to the government policy of taking over farm land was free to join the mass hunger strike from 1000 to 2000 hrs today and the assembly on Monday.
Presumably this includes Naxalites.
Denying that she had rejected the talks offer by the Chief Minister on the whole episode, Banerjee said she had only wanted that the government stop acquiring land and lift prohibitory orders from the area before holding dialogues.
Meanwhile, social activist Medha Patekar was today arrested when she along with Naxalites was marching in a procession here to protest yesterday's police ''lathi charge'' on journalists in Hooghly district.
Tata Motors says Mamata did not respond to its feelers They also say the state government had been very supportive and the project would prove to be a milestone for "re-industrialisation" of West Bengal.
This is the first time the automobile giant has made its willingness public for talks ever since its plan to set up the ambitious small car plant at Singur in West Bengal hit the roadblock.
It seems to me that the problem concerns the annexation of peasant's land instead of available brown field sites. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said he would not budge and that “industrialisation is a must” for the state. But it seems that nobody makes significant objections to this if peasants's land is not used.
IMO: It almost looks as if there should now, in classical Walton-McKerzie terms, be a settlement but all want to show they are good negotiators. But surely the peasants are the people and their rights, within reason, predominate and the bureaucrats and politicians (and to a lesser extent Tata) are now definitely the ones at fault as there seems a clear answer to the dispute: build the factory but use a suitable brown field site, or at the very worst give heavy and relevant recompense if that fails.
Presumably this includes Naxalites.
Denying that she had rejected the talks offer by the Chief Minister on the whole episode, Banerjee said she had only wanted that the government stop acquiring land and lift prohibitory orders from the area before holding dialogues.
Meanwhile, social activist Medha Patekar was today arrested when she along with Naxalites was marching in a procession here to protest yesterday's police ''lathi charge'' on journalists in Hooghly district.
Tata Motors says Mamata did not respond to its feelers They also say the state government had been very supportive and the project would prove to be a milestone for "re-industrialisation" of West Bengal.
This is the first time the automobile giant has made its willingness public for talks ever since its plan to set up the ambitious small car plant at Singur in West Bengal hit the roadblock.
It seems to me that the problem concerns the annexation of peasant's land instead of available brown field sites. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said he would not budge and that “industrialisation is a must” for the state. But it seems that nobody makes significant objections to this if peasants's land is not used.
IMO: It almost looks as if there should now, in classical Walton-McKerzie terms, be a settlement but all want to show they are good negotiators. But surely the peasants are the people and their rights, within reason, predominate and the bureaucrats and politicians (and to a lesser extent Tata) are now definitely the ones at fault as there seems a clear answer to the dispute: build the factory but use a suitable brown field site, or at the very worst give heavy and relevant recompense if that fails.
# posted by uv : 10:41 PM
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