18th June – Last day of Mamatas charade of fighting for people of SingurIts V-day for the people of Singur, and as per sources the villagers are celebrating. On the other hand it’s a sad and glum TMC camp and office. When reporters today reached the party office, they found it empty and none of the floating junior party members had any answer as to where their so called firebrand leader and her close coterie were. The media later found out that a party meeting of the high command was on; in some unconfirmed venue, and that the party was deliberating how to overcome the current situation - which has cropped up post the patriarch Jyoti Basu made a media statement as to the Singur settlement.
We attach below the news that appeared post Jyoti Basus’ meeting and briefing the media:
Alternative package best in country: Basu
Kolkata, Jun 15 (PTI) Veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu was today
all praise for the alternative compensation package prepared by state
Industry Minister Nirupam Sen for the "unwilling" farmers whose land
have been acquired for the Tata Motors' small car project at Singur.
"This is the best thing in the country," Basu told reporters
after attending the party's state secretariat meeting here.
The package, however, would be disclosed by Sen after hearing
of a land acquisition case in the High Court on June 18, he said.
Asked if Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee found the
package unacceptable, he said it can't be helped. "Is she aware of
the package?" he asked.
The West Bengal government had yesterday turned down the Trinamool
Congress' demand that the land of the unwilling farmers at Singur
be returned but said an alternative proposal was being worked out
by the state government.
After a meeting with Banerjee on June 4 to find a solution to
both Singur and Nandigram problems, Basu had said that her demands
should be looked into by the state government. Both had then expressed
confidence on reaching an amicable settlement of the issues.
Basu veered around to the state government stand that the land
for Tata project was already acquired and that Banerjee's demand
for return of land to unwilling farmers could not be conceded.
"During my meeting with her, she told me that there is a land
measuring 600 acre oppositite to the Tata site. But on inquiry I
found that it is private property," Basu said responding to a question
by a reporter.
So Mamata, what’s your next trick going to be?
Kolkata, Jun 15 (PTI) Veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu was today
all praise for the alternative compensation package prepared by state
Industry Minister Nirupam Sen for the "unwilling" farmers whose land
have been acquired for the Tata Motors' small car project at Singur.
"This is the best thing in the country," Basu told reporters
after attending the party's state secretariat meeting here.
The package, however, would be disclosed by Sen after hearing
of a land acquisition case in the High Court on June 18, he said.
Asked if Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee found the
package unacceptable, he said it can't be helped. "Is she aware of
the package?" he asked.
The West Bengal government had yesterday turned down the Trinamool
Congress' demand that the land of the unwilling farmers at Singur
be returned but said an alternative proposal was being worked out
by the state government.
After a meeting with Banerjee on June 4 to find a solution to
both Singur and Nandigram problems, Basu had said that her demands
should be looked into by the state government. Both had then expressed
confidence on reaching an amicable settlement of the issues.
Basu veered around to the state government stand that the land
for Tata project was already acquired and that Banerjee's demand
for return of land to unwilling farmers could not be conceded.
"During my meeting with her, she told me that there is a land
measuring 600 acre oppositite to the Tata site. But on inquiry I
found that it is private property," Basu said responding to a question
by a reporter.
So Mamata, what’s your next trick going to be?
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