Though she did not lose her cool like in the past, Mamata appeared visibly upset at one point & alleged that hecklers had 'leftist, ultra-leftist, & communal' affiliations.
'Had there been industry, things would've been different,' says a 45-yr-old who took part in 2008 anti-land acquisition protests that forced Tata Motors to move proposed Nano factory to Gujarat.
Sandeshkhali takes us back 17 years to Nandigram when women full of rage marched with raised lathis. And Mamata Banerjee has echoed the CPI-M’s responses to its decisive blunders at Singur, Nandigram, and Lalgarh.
Tata Motors says arbitral tribunal has ruled in its favour in compensation case against West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited for now-closed manufacturing unit in the state.
Singur, which votes on 10 April, is one of the keenly watched contests in West Bengal, with two important faces of the 2006 land movement fighting it out as BJP and TMC candidates.
Many Singur farmers left for cities as their land was left infertile by construction linked to the Tata Nano plant. But now Covid has created new problems for them.
Farmers in Singur, Nandigram got their land back, but it is ‘uncultivable’. They’re angry because Trinamool didn’t help them, say the agitation was just politics.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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