The State government is not budging from Singur and neither are the Tatas; there is no reason for worry,” Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said here on Tuesday reacting to threats by the Trinamool Congress to intensify its stir over the setting up of the Tata Motors’ automobile project there.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has called for indefinite stir outside the project site from August 24 till 400 acres of land (out of the 997 acres acquired) that she claims was acquired without the consent of the farmers is handed back to them. This land, she has said, was not required to set up the plant.
“Not even an inch more of land necessary for the project has been acquired,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said, ridiculing the demand to return the land in question.
“There is still time for the Opposition to sit for relevant discussions over the Singur issue,” he said. “We are willing to show respect to the Opposition but not for talks that are irrelevant and illogical,” Mr. Bhattacharjee added.
He was speaking at a function to commemorate the 120th birth anniversary of Muzaffar Ahmed, a pioneering figure in the Communist movement in the country.
Security will be tightened in and around the Tata Motors’s automobile manufacturing project in view of the Trinamool agitation.
Work on the project was going on as per the schedule and the first car, it was hoped, would be rolling out of the factory by the Pujas, State’s Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said earlier in the day.
Dismissing reports in a section of the media that the Tata Motors authorities were considering pulling out of Singur, he said that the State government had “no such information.”
Mr. Sen said that Ravi Kant, managing director, Tata Motors, had visited the project site the last time he was in the State. “Seventy-five per cent of the (construction) work had been completed by then and I hope some more has been completed since. I still hope that the cars will be coming out (of the plant) by the Puja,” he said.
State’s Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakravarty along with Director General of Police A.B. Vohra had a meeting with officials of the Tata Motors at Singur.
“The State government can only give alternative land (to those claiming that their plots at Singur had been forcibly acquired) if it does have land to give. It will have to acquire such land elsewhere and there could be similar problems then,” Mr. Sen said.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has called for indefinite stir outside the project site from August 24 till 400 acres of land (out of the 997 acres acquired) that she claims was acquired without the consent of the farmers is handed back to them. This land, she has said, was not required to set up the plant.
“Not even an inch more of land necessary for the project has been acquired,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said, ridiculing the demand to return the land in question.
“There is still time for the Opposition to sit for relevant discussions over the Singur issue,” he said. “We are willing to show respect to the Opposition but not for talks that are irrelevant and illogical,” Mr. Bhattacharjee added.
He was speaking at a function to commemorate the 120th birth anniversary of Muzaffar Ahmed, a pioneering figure in the Communist movement in the country.
Security will be tightened in and around the Tata Motors’s automobile manufacturing project in view of the Trinamool agitation.
Work on the project was going on as per the schedule and the first car, it was hoped, would be rolling out of the factory by the Pujas, State’s Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said earlier in the day.
Dismissing reports in a section of the media that the Tata Motors authorities were considering pulling out of Singur, he said that the State government had “no such information.”
Mr. Sen said that Ravi Kant, managing director, Tata Motors, had visited the project site the last time he was in the State. “Seventy-five per cent of the (construction) work had been completed by then and I hope some more has been completed since. I still hope that the cars will be coming out (of the plant) by the Puja,” he said.
State’s Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakravarty along with Director General of Police A.B. Vohra had a meeting with officials of the Tata Motors at Singur.
“The State government can only give alternative land (to those claiming that their plots at Singur had been forcibly acquired) if it does have land to give. It will have to acquire such land elsewhere and there could be similar problems then,” Mr. Sen said.
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