Ratan Tata’s comment on the state of Bengal’s industry continued to evoke a strong reaction from the ruling Trinamool Congress top brass on Friday, with the state education minister and ex-industry minister Partha Chatterjee saying that the senior industrialist should have returned land to the farmers of Singur rather than commenting on Bengal’s poor industrial growth.
Another Trinamool minister Soumen Mahapatra also said that the Tata group chairman emeritus made the remark perhaps because he was getting into the real estate scenario.
‘We had requested the Tatas to return the 400 acres of land to the unwilling farmers of Singur which they have not till date,’ TMC MP Sisir Adhikari. The war of words between Tata and the state’s ministers was triggered off by the senior industrialist’s comment on Wednesday that he did not see any change in the industrial scenario in West Bengal even after two years.
Interestingly, the Trinamool Congress had launched a popular agitation against the Tata’s proposed Nano car project in Singur in the run up to the 2011 assembly polls, which finally saw the company pulling out of the state.
Ratan Tata’s comment saw strong reactions in Trinamool circles on Thursday, with state finance and industry minister Amit Mitra saying that the Tata Group Chairman Emeritus had ‘lost his mind’.
Another Trinamool minister Soumen Mahapatra also said that the Tata group chairman emeritus made the remark perhaps because he was getting into the real estate scenario.
‘We had requested the Tatas to return the 400 acres of land to the unwilling farmers of Singur which they have not till date,’ TMC MP Sisir Adhikari. The war of words between Tata and the state’s ministers was triggered off by the senior industrialist’s comment on Wednesday that he did not see any change in the industrial scenario in West Bengal even after two years.
Interestingly, the Trinamool Congress had launched a popular agitation against the Tata’s proposed Nano car project in Singur in the run up to the 2011 assembly polls, which finally saw the company pulling out of the state.
Ratan Tata’s comment saw strong reactions in Trinamool circles on Thursday, with state finance and industry minister Amit Mitra saying that the Tata Group Chairman Emeritus had ‘lost his mind’.