Tags : kolkata, tatas nano project
Posted: Saturday , Sep 27, 2008 at 0131 hrs IST Kolkata, September 26:
At a CPM secretariat meeting held on Friday morning at Allimuddin Street, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told party colleagues that the chance of the Tatas staying back in Bengal and operating in Singur were very slim.
Nonetheless, the government would try its level best to keep the Nano project in the state.
Emerging from the meeting, Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said the chief minister had appealed to the Tatas to stay on in Singur.
“You will not encounter any problems in continuing work at Singur. There are adequate security arrangements. If needed, security can be increased,” said Sen, quoting from the Chief Minister’s letter to Ratan Tata.
In his letter, the chief Minister has tried to convince the Tatas that an overwhelming number people from West Bengal want the Nano project to stay.
Apart from Bhattacharjee, Sen and Left Front chairman Biman Bose have also appealed to the Tatas on the same lines.
“The opinion of a handful of people cannot be held as the ultimate decision,” said Sen, “out of 13,000 dispossessed farmers, 11,000 had accepted compensation. So how can one say that the majority does not want the Nano plant?”
Biman Bose said: “I can understand that the small car will miss its deadline, but I still feel that the Tatas should stay in Bengal.”
Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee, meanwhile, remained defiant. On Friday, the party held a protest rally in front of the Tata plant, demanding the return of the disputed 400 acres.
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