Thursday, December 07, 2006
Mamata threatens boycott call on Tata products
Kolkata, Dec. 7: Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee, today threatened to give a call for boycott of Tata products. "I am telling the Tatas don't take things to such a pass that we are forced to call for people's boycott of Tata products. We have not said anything against the Tatas so far," Banerjee, on hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day, told reporters.
Her party would have no objection if the Tatas set up their car plant on non-agricultural land. "We will help them in finding a suitable plot," she said. Alleging that the CPI(M) was trying to muzzle the voice of peasants at Singur, Banerjee thundered "Till our last breath, we will resist the establishment of the plant there."
Nationalist Trinamool Congress is not the same as Congress Party. NTC was formed in 2004 when the All India Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee merged with P.A. Sangma's faction of the Nationalist Congress Party. NTC is a member of National Democratic Alliance, a coalition led by BJP.
IMO: I assume that NTC aims are roughly in accord with BJP aims, which makes a boycott of some importance. Whether it will succeed is of course another matter, Obvously one would have to be on the spot to know how important the use of that land is to the car company but I would have hoped that Tata would find itself able to come to some agreement as just taking agricultural land is not appealing, and Tata's record is not altogether bad, oligarchy or not. The rough situation suggested here, still seems to apply, and Indiadaily's hopes may still apply ("The communists and the oligarchs both will be defeated hands down by the people of democratic India").
Her party would have no objection if the Tatas set up their car plant on non-agricultural land. "We will help them in finding a suitable plot," she said. Alleging that the CPI(M) was trying to muzzle the voice of peasants at Singur, Banerjee thundered "Till our last breath, we will resist the establishment of the plant there."
Nationalist Trinamool Congress is not the same as Congress Party. NTC was formed in 2004 when the All India Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee merged with P.A. Sangma's faction of the Nationalist Congress Party. NTC is a member of National Democratic Alliance, a coalition led by BJP.
IMO: I assume that NTC aims are roughly in accord with BJP aims, which makes a boycott of some importance. Whether it will succeed is of course another matter, Obvously one would have to be on the spot to know how important the use of that land is to the car company but I would have hoped that Tata would find itself able to come to some agreement as just taking agricultural land is not appealing, and Tata's record is not altogether bad, oligarchy or not. The rough situation suggested here, still seems to apply, and Indiadaily's hopes may still apply ("The communists and the oligarchs both will be defeated hands down by the people of democratic India").
# posted by uv : 9:25 PM
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