What has the politics in Singur achieved will be realised by the poor rural farmers after Mamtaji returns back to the cosy comforts of Calcutta. Time will tell what effect the whole drama will have on the industrialisation of West Bengal. No matter how hard commies try, they can not afford to sit quiet on this issue for long. They have to take a stand and the earlier they do, the better for them. Dr Vijay Thawani, Nagpur
Re: Shame on Mamta politics
by chandrasekaran v on Sep 03, 2008 12:19 PM Permalink
Let us be fair. As far as Mamta is concerned, she, as a politician, paid back the Leftists in their same coin. Even among leftists, there are two sides - Bengal Leftists and Kerala Leftists. Mamata is not at all needed, the two Leftists will take care of themselves to ruin. Now, leave the politicians. Why even TATAs could have stepped back - just one step - and settled the matter by bringing down their demand from 1000 acre to 800 acre land, and got the project going, in case they were serious enough. May be that the TATAs had decided (much earlier) to quit West Bengal for some other reasons! It interesting to read press reports today that the TATAs are not happy with land acquisition in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu for one of their projects(thus indirectly blackmailing the TN Governemnt to go ahead in acquiring land). I repeat had the TATAs were serious enough they would have pegged down their demand from 1000 acre to say 800 acre and get the project going. May be that, as other automobile manufacturers said, it is not economical to sell cars at 1 lac rupees OR that the TATAs are only interested in grabbing land (history shows how Maruti got prime agrl.land near Delhi border in Gurgaon for a song thanks to Sanjay Gandhi). In my view also, it is better for the nation as a whole if TATAs go in for some other project than manufacture of cars, given the increased crude oil prices world-wide, existing paucity of intrastructure like roads and the nighmarish experience one wo
