The Singur action shifts on Friday to the city’s Raj Bhavan, which is hosting a crucial bipartite meeting to decide the fate of the Tata Motors small car project in West Bengal.
KOLKATA: The Singur action shifts on Friday to the city’s Raj Bhavan (governor’s house), which is hosting a crucial bipartite meeting to decide the fate of the Tata Motors small car project in West Bengal.
The meeting, to be presided over by governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, is expected to throw up a definite solution to the impasse, since both the countering parties are participating with an “open mind”.
Sources said the West Bengal government would first try to explain to Trinamool leaders that even if the 400 acres were returned to “unwilling farmers”, they won’t be able to use it since development works have rendered the land unfit for agriculture.
Once the Trinamool leaders are convinced, the sources said, the government would propose an alternative and sustainable economic rehabilitation package, which might include better remuneration and jobs for the landless.
The sources said if the Trinamool leaders insisted on alternative land, their demand would be conceded in principle and they told to identify such land that could be acquired without opposition.
The Trinamool Congress, on its part, would try to get the government to admit the alleged lapses in the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Nano plant and agree that it was in principle not opposed to providing alternative land to “unwilling farmers”.
In the run-up to Friday’s crucial meeting, Gandhi had separate meetings with the government and representatives of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress. The government delegation that met Gandhi included industry & commerce minister Nirupam Sen, industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen and chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb.
After the meeting, Sen told reporters he had explained to the governor the ground situation in Singur. “I am hopeful of a solution,” he said.
r_sumanta@dnaindia.net
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