Thursday, June 14, 2007
Mamata dismisses Buddha`s stand on Singur land
Kolkata, June 14: The Trinamool Congress has rubbished the West Bengal government's argument that land taken from unwilling farmers in Singur for a Tata Motors' project cannot be returned and said the matter can be sorted out if there is political will to do so.
Banerjee said "Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee does not know the ABC of land acquisition. If the state government has the political will, the matter can still be sorted out."
"It is clear the Marxist government has been hand in glove with big money, represented by the Tatas and multinational companies, to take away fertile agricultural land from the poor farmers and gift it to them."
IMO: Didi seems to have presented the position realistically. Also, I know of no clear indication that ecological factors, a likely real future problem to all concerned including Tata, as earlier blogged here, have been satisfactorarily considered by Buddhadeb at all. Will Bharat never learn? After Bhopal's problem with Union Carbide when people said "never again" and then did a George Fernandes with the money, we now have problems with Dow Chemical in Bhopal as well, and now there is this in Kolkata ! So the Taj Corridor matter could be overlooked by Congress for a few votes but maybe Singur has not got enough Congress votes to allow justice and fairness here. It all sounds short sighted and self serving
Banerjee said "Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee does not know the ABC of land acquisition. If the state government has the political will, the matter can still be sorted out."
"It is clear the Marxist government has been hand in glove with big money, represented by the Tatas and multinational companies, to take away fertile agricultural land from the poor farmers and gift it to them."
IMO: Didi seems to have presented the position realistically. Also, I know of no clear indication that ecological factors, a likely real future problem to all concerned including Tata, as earlier blogged here, have been satisfactorarily considered by Buddhadeb at all. Will Bharat never learn? After Bhopal's problem with Union Carbide when people said "never again" and then did a George Fernandes with the money, we now have problems with Dow Chemical in Bhopal as well, and now there is this in Kolkata ! So the Taj Corridor matter could be overlooked by Congress for a few votes but maybe Singur has not got enough Congress votes to allow justice and fairness here. It all sounds short sighted and self serving
# posted by uv : 7:59 PM
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