West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said "At Singur, we will never go back. It is not possible. If I go back in this case, I will never be able to raise my head. It will send a very wrong message all over the world, all over the country," to a private TV channel.
He’s worried about raising his head! What about the families who lose their houses, livelihoods, their lands, farms, jobs because of this land? What about the message he is sending to the people in West Bengal who voted for him and got him to power? Why do we need these 1 lakh cars on the roads in the first place? We need to invest on better public transport. We already have no places to drive on the roads. We do not need more cars or pollution!!
"I am sure I will be able to make them (people of Singur) understand why Singur project is necessary for the development of our state," he said in reply to questions.
Whose development? The Tatas, their shareholders and the fund for the minister’s next political campaign?
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I guess the Singur plant was going to provide employment to a large no. of local people and the local economy would also have benefited from the plant.
The tatas cannot be compared to other corporate houses. Air India was created from TATA airlines and Jamshedpur steel plant is still one of the biggest steel plants in India and it provides employment to a lot of people and helps the local economy as well.
Saying this, I agree in totality that the displaced people should be given alternate land and jobs and there the Govt. should set up a watchdog for this.
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