Sunday, June 10, 2007
Trinamool’s chakka jam cripples traffic in Kolkata
And still there is yet more talk and speculation I'm afraid.......
Didi had apparently declared on Friday that Trinamool will continue to oppose the acquisition of farmland for industries.
However CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu, who invited Mamata over to his house for talks on Monday, sounded positive. "A solution is definitely possible," he said.
Mamata made her position more specific during the day. A total of 402 acres owned by farmers from whom land had been taken without consent would have to be returned. She put the total number of farmers at 3,500. She knew the government estimate: 2,885 farmers had refused compensation for 326 acres.
Mamata's objection was not against setting up of industries. "We do not oppose industrialisation," the Trinamul chief said. But she argued that setting up housing complexes and shopping malls could not be categorised as industrialisation. She was, however, against setting up a chemical hub at Haldia as KJRC is against special economic zones.
Trinamool sources said that Mamata is unlikely to yield an inch unless the government agrees to some demands, since Naxalites have joined her movement and are putting pressure on her. "Already, some Naxalite groups are spreading talk that Mamata is in league with the CPI(M)," the Trinamool sources said.
IMO: Be all that as it may, the stinky cheap small cars seems unecessary and probably as planned an outmoded concept. They may end up being denounced by the G8 for ecological reasons and maybe not allowed at all, or only allowed in very small numbers. The Pajero idea of MIT Prof. Banerjee sounded better but only a step in the right direction, and not what people want in their guts right now. We could end up with farmer's land confiscated by such as the Tatas and virtually no small cars anyway, just "shopping malls" or glitzy areas, little more than painted up sheds like in some other countries, which the poor cannot afford and don't need. And recall the Taj Corridor problem as just one horrible example.
Within reason only, my sympathies are with the Naxalites. These days in the UK, Tesco looks to a majority of people like a totally malevolent Josef Stalin - they hate the apparently inexorable hug of the Russian (or now the Tesco) bear. Reliance may eventually look little better if they are not careful.
Didi had apparently declared on Friday that Trinamool will continue to oppose the acquisition of farmland for industries.
However CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu, who invited Mamata over to his house for talks on Monday, sounded positive. "A solution is definitely possible," he said.
Mamata made her position more specific during the day. A total of 402 acres owned by farmers from whom land had been taken without consent would have to be returned. She put the total number of farmers at 3,500. She knew the government estimate: 2,885 farmers had refused compensation for 326 acres.
Mamata's objection was not against setting up of industries. "We do not oppose industrialisation," the Trinamul chief said. But she argued that setting up housing complexes and shopping malls could not be categorised as industrialisation. She was, however, against setting up a chemical hub at Haldia as KJRC is against special economic zones.
Trinamool sources said that Mamata is unlikely to yield an inch unless the government agrees to some demands, since Naxalites have joined her movement and are putting pressure on her. "Already, some Naxalite groups are spreading talk that Mamata is in league with the CPI(M)," the Trinamool sources said.
IMO: Be all that as it may, the stinky cheap small cars seems unecessary and probably as planned an outmoded concept. They may end up being denounced by the G8 for ecological reasons and maybe not allowed at all, or only allowed in very small numbers. The Pajero idea of MIT Prof. Banerjee sounded better but only a step in the right direction, and not what people want in their guts right now. We could end up with farmer's land confiscated by such as the Tatas and virtually no small cars anyway, just "shopping malls" or glitzy areas, little more than painted up sheds like in some other countries, which the poor cannot afford and don't need. And recall the Taj Corridor problem as just one horrible example.
Within reason only, my sympathies are with the Naxalites. These days in the UK, Tesco looks to a majority of people like a totally malevolent Josef Stalin - they hate the apparently inexorable hug of the Russian (or now the Tesco) bear. Reliance may eventually look little better if they are not careful.
# posted by uv : 5:25 AM
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