Barely days after the Tatas took their Nano project from Singur to Sanand in Gujarat, chief minister Narendra Modi has sent open letters to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee
KOLKATA: Barely days after the Tatas took their Nano project from Singur to Sanand in Gujarat, the state’s chief minister Narendra Modi has sent open letters to West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee advising them to be united on the issue of the state’s economic development.
In his letter to Bhattacharjee, Modi has asked him to be in constant interaction with the opposition on the issue of development. At the same time, he has appealed to Mamata to avoid the path of Left extremism that she is adopting to counter the ruling Left forces in the state.
Modi has written the letters through the Bengali daily Ananda Bazaar Patrika.
In his letter to Bhattacharjee, Modi has clearly said that despite the honest intentions of the chief minister, West Bengal’s work culture was not favourable to retaining the Nano project.
“Despite your attempts at industrialisation, your party or the administration are not entirely with you in your attempts,” Modi told his counterpart.
However, praising Bhattacharjee’s role as chief minister, the BJP leader says: “Even Ratan Tata is all praise for you. But still, West Bengal could not hold back the Nano project.”
In his letter to Mamata, Modi clearly says though, as a BJP leader, he supports her movement against the marxists, he does not support her destructive politics on the issue of development.
“As a political associate, I am telling you that the people are tired of ‘nahi chalegan, nahi chalega’ politics,” he says.
Advising Mamata to avoid the path of left extremism, Modi has asked her to project a rightist alternative in West Bengal. “Rather, you raise the demand for more industry, more roads and more employment,” Modi writes.
In his letter to both Mamata and Bhattacharjee, Modi said he had no planned intention to snatch the Nano project from West Bengal. “I would like to say clearly that just as I want Gujarat to flourish through projects, similarly I earnestly want that my brothers and sisters in West Bengal are never deprived of such fruits of development.”
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