Former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said if the Nano project at Singur went elsewhere, West Bengal would become a "dark spot."
KOLKATA: Batting for the Nano car project, former India cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday joined the chorus supporting the Tata venture saying it created "a future for us" and warned that West Bengal would become a "dark spot" if the project is shifted from Singur.
"The starting of the Nano project will be a beginning of an era in West Bengal which will completely revolutionalise the prospect of the state and the future of the youth of our state," Ganguly said in a statement.
Stating that the brand Tatas would turn Singur into another Jamshedpur, he said that as a citizen of West Bengal and a part of the Tata Group since 1994, "I feel industry is the future of the state."
"So let us support the cause of Tatas and the industry to create the future of us. If this project goes elsewhere, the state will become a dark spot," Ganguly said.
The Trinamool Congress which is spearheading the agitation in Singur over land acqusition for the project slammed the cricketer's endorsement of the car plant sarcastically asking "Does he know where Singur is"
Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi said he would request Ganguly to go to Singur, talk to the farmers and assess the situation and then give his reaction.
Ganguly is being paid by Tatas and he is under their sponsorship, he said.
"There is no objection. He is doing his duty and he is earning out of it," Trivedi said of the cricketer backing the car project. " But the issue (Singur) is very sensitive. Does he know the matter. Does he know how many farmers were beaten," he added.
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