Govt won't bail out Buddha: Dasmunsi
Partisan politics has been, and continues to be, at play over Tata’s Singur project.
By ET Bureau |
NEW DELHI: Partisan politics has been, and continues to be, at play over Tata���s Singur project. The expectation that the Congress would abandon its partisan identity in order to become faithful stewards of its obligation as a facilitator of investments was proved wrong when its West Bengal unit disassociated itself from Union commerce minister Kamal Nath���s statement that Centre could play a facilitating role for breaking the Singur stalemate.
���Kamal Nath has said something. But as a central minister, I want to make it clear that the Union government will not take the responsibility of bailing out the West Bengal government from the Singur crisis,��� agency reports from Kolkata quoting I&B minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said.
While speaking to reporters in Singapore two days ago, Mr Kamal Nath had described Tatas as a victim of conflict between two political parties in West Bengal. ���The Centre can play a facilitating role so that the investment and generation of employment opportunities is not impacted in West Bengal,��� Mr Nath had said.
In Kolkata, the I&B minister blamed chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for the impasse in Singur. ���The state government was now hurrying with industrialisation process after idling for 33 years. Singur is the baby of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. It is he who will have to protect and nurture it,��� the minister said.
He said the land acquisition policy was formulated by the NDA regime and not by the UPA. He said that the UPA was against acquisition of fertile land, favoured economic and social rehabilitation package for land losers and direct talks between entrepreneurs and land owners in deciding the price of land. Asserting that the Congress was the first to begin a ���satyagraha��� at Singur on the farmland acquisition issue, Mr Dasmunsi said his party would organise demonstrations at district headquarters on September 3 and 8.
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