Move likely to widen rift between UPA and Mayawati
In a move that could widen the UPA-Mayawati rift and fuel demands from agitating farmers in other states for succor from the Centre, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday announced financial aid for the injured farmers of Bhatta Parsaul and Acchapur villages of Uttar Pradesh.
While the seriously injured in the recent agitation against the Ma
Hours after being sworn in as the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee today announced the decision to return the 400 acres of land to the unwilling landlosers of Singur but did not give a clearcut decision about withdrawing Central forces from Junglemahal.
It was the first decision to be taken by the newly-formed Cabinet of ministers and was ironically announced by Miss Banerjee from the rotun
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has invited the Tatas to set up any factory they want on 600 acres at Singur, on the 997-acre plot leased out to them by the West Bengal government. This was practically the first decision of her maiden cabinet meeting after Banerjee stepped into Writers
Land is as emotive an issue as caste in India. For millions, their sense of livelihood and identity is inextricably linked to the ground on which they have lived for generations. So when they are forced to give it up for development projects without reasonable compensation or rehabilitation, there is bound to be bitter resistance, even violence.
New Delhi: Ratan Tata may have blamed Mamata Banerjee for ousting his Nano project from West Bengal but newly-elected MLA Amit Mitra, tipped to be finance minister, said the Trinamool-Congress
regime would seek the conglomerate
Singur, 15 May: Those who parted with their lands for the now-abandoned Tata Motors Nano small car project have begun dreaming again after the victory of the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance in the Assembly poll.
The land-losers took out a rally on Friday at the site of the project abandoned in 2008 after the Trinamul Congress supremo Miss Mamata Banerjee demanded that 400 acres of the land
Unfazed by the Singur debacle, wherein Trinamul Congress-led agitation had put the CPI-M-led Left Front government in trouble in the last Lok Sabha and civic polls, chief minister, Mr Buddhabeb Bhattacharjee, today announced at an election rally that if the Left Front comes to power this time it will "certainly" set up the small car factory at Singur and dared the Trinamul Congress to stop it.
Mr
