Samik Ghosh>>May be I am wrong , I am ill-informed ... but all over the world I have heard that if agriculture makes way to industry even to a small extent , it is helpful to the society ?
You are a typical CPIM cader. Or at least, you still have that cader mentality - twisting and turning facts, but never speaking the truth.
1. Singur is a prime Agri cultural Farm land. CPIM suppressing that fact.
2. The law (1890s British law) based on which Govt is forcing land acquisition has been shot down by Supreme Cort of India in December 2006.
3. In India we have rule of law unlike China. You can't just grab somebody's land against their wishes or by intimadation by CPIM Caders as being done now.
4. CPIM lied that 98% people gave land willingly. However fact remains, some 40-45% money is still NOT collected by land owners.
5. CPIM is fabicating facts that only 3% of WB land is non-agriable. However, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, India's most experienced bureaucrat on Land-reformation has categorically rejected that. He said from the same document (from where CPIM is quoting) that 17% of WB land is agriable.
6. Nowhere in India, be it Guj/Mah/Orissa - farmland are being acquisitioned for Industry. I have spoken with many friends outside WB, and they said: are you mad? Why Industry will be setup in farmland? Nowhere it will be allowed.
7. Marginal farmers will be doomed if they sell their land. Why Can;t Tata set up the plant in arid lands of Bankura/Purulia districts, which are also close to Jamshedpur?
8. He quotes Amartya Sen/Yunis as supporting Singur. This is fabicration. They never supported it.
