'Mamata ensured shift of Nano to Gujarat'

    
NEW DELHI: The CPI(M) on Friday accused Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee of not only ensuring the exit of the Nano car project from Bengal but facilitating its relocation in BJP-ruled Gujarat and said such politics also needed to be relocated for the prosperity of the state.     

Banerjee has not only ensured the exit of the project from Bengal "but being the loyal steadfast ally of the BJP, she facilitated the project's relocation in Gujarat.     

"Remember, she continued to remain with the NDA and, thus, in a way endorsed the communal carnage unleashed in the state by BJP's Narendra Modi government," party Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said.
    
In an editorial in the forthcoming issue of CPI(M) organ 'People's Democracy', he said "the politics that led to the relocation of the Nano project from Bengal also needs to be relocated elsewhere in the interests of greater prosperity of Bengal and its people."
    
He said the Trinamool Congress, "with the mere support of less than ten per cent of the owners of the acquired land, who have not taken the compensation cheques, adversely affected the future prosperity and improved livelihood for a large number of people in the area".
    
Claiming that adequate protection had been provided to the project, Yechury also took the Tatas to task for taking the "stand that unless everybody cooperates, they are not going to continue to remain in Singur. One can, surely, disagree with such a position.
    
"For, after all, no one can say that they shall build their house in a locality only when all others living there give an assurance that their house will not be burgled. However, like Mamata Banerjee, the Tatas have an equal right to take an unreasonable position," he said.