A festive mood prevails in Singur where West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday Sep 14,2016 return 9,117 land records to farmers
and compensate 800 peasants from whom land had been taken against their
will for the Tata Motors' Nano project, redeeming a pledge she made
years back.
On August 31, 2016 the Supreme Court of India(SCI) had quashed the land acquisition for the small car factory and given 12 weeks time to return the land to farmers
Two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the land acquisition made by the erstwhile Left Front government and ordered the land be returned to the cultivators, the state government will celebrate the "Singur festival" in the Hooghly district rural pocket, even as sceptics raise questions over the industrial prospects of the state after the recent turn of events.
The main function is being held at Sanapara - the same spot of the Durgapur Expressway where Banerjee had held a 16-day sit-in protest in 2008 demanding 400 acres out of the total 997.11 acres acquired for the project be returned to the "unwilling farmers". The intense and often violent peasant movement had resulted in Tata Motors abandoning the Singur project and later bringing out the small car Nano from Sanand in Gujarat.
Mamata Banerjee, who had staked a lot during the movement, and even undertaken a 26-day hunger strike, rode on the anti-land acquisition stir in Singur and Nandigram (in East Midnapore district) to end the 34-year LF rule and become the state's first woman Chief Minister.
Both during the agitation, and after coming to power in the state in May, 2011, Banerjee had promised to return the land to the farmers. In fact, the first decision of the Banerjee cabinet was to return 400 acres to the peasants.
As Mamata Banerjee returns for her tryst with Singur on a triumphant note, a huge 80 feet long and 60 feet wide stage has been erected on one side of the Durgapur Expressway
On August 31, 2016 the Supreme Court of India(SCI) had quashed the land acquisition for the small car factory and given 12 weeks time to return the land to farmers
Two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the land acquisition made by the erstwhile Left Front government and ordered the land be returned to the cultivators, the state government will celebrate the "Singur festival" in the Hooghly district rural pocket, even as sceptics raise questions over the industrial prospects of the state after the recent turn of events.
The main function is being held at Sanapara - the same spot of the Durgapur Expressway where Banerjee had held a 16-day sit-in protest in 2008 demanding 400 acres out of the total 997.11 acres acquired for the project be returned to the "unwilling farmers". The intense and often violent peasant movement had resulted in Tata Motors abandoning the Singur project and later bringing out the small car Nano from Sanand in Gujarat.
Mamata Banerjee, who had staked a lot during the movement, and even undertaken a 26-day hunger strike, rode on the anti-land acquisition stir in Singur and Nandigram (in East Midnapore district) to end the 34-year LF rule and become the state's first woman Chief Minister.
Both during the agitation, and after coming to power in the state in May, 2011, Banerjee had promised to return the land to the farmers. In fact, the first decision of the Banerjee cabinet was to return 400 acres to the peasants.
As Mamata Banerjee returns for her tryst with Singur on a triumphant note, a huge 80 feet long and 60 feet wide stage has been erected on one side of the Durgapur Expressway
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