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SME Times News Bureau | 25 May, 2019
A section of farmers in West Bengal's Singur, which had witnessed a
violent anti-land acquisition stir over a decade back, staged a protest
demonstration on Friday demanding industries be set up on their land
which still lies barren.
The farmers' protest took place a day
after the BJP won the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat and also took a sizeable
lead from the rural hamlet.
BJP's Locket Chatterjee defeated
outgoing Trinamool MP Ratna De Nag by a margin of over 73,362 votes,
that included a10,000 plus lead in Singur Assembly segment.
Singur
was on the boil between 2006 and 2008 after the then Left Front
government acquired 997.11 acres of land for setting up Tata Motor's
small car factory.
Demanding return of 400 acres to farmers from
whom land was allegedly taken against their will, the then opposition
Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee spear-headed a violent and
sustained movement that ultimately forced the automobile giant Tata
Motors to shift its small car plant to Sanand in Gujarat.
"Farmers
who had given land for setting up of the small car factory are
demanding industries. Even a section of farmers, who fought against the
land acquisition for the small car factory, are also demanding
industries. I will talk to them," Chatterjee said.
During the
poll campaign, peasants in Singur had demanded there should be "no more
politics" with their land and exhorted the government to "make it
cultivable or use it for productive purpose".
The Singur movement
had raised Trinamool's popularity graph, and it went from strength to
strength to oust the 34-year-old Left Front government in the 2011
Assembly polls.
Soon after coming to power in the state, the
Mamata Banerjee government promulgated the Singur Land Rehabilitation
and Development Act and acquired the land to keep its promise of
returning 400 acres to the "unwilling farmers". However, the Tatas took
the legal route.
After a prolonged legal battle and following the apex court order to return land to farmers, the state handed it back.
Chatterjee urged Tatas to return to the rural hamlet.
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