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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Trinamul charity cry for Singur farmers

Trinamul charity cry for Singur farmers

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published Published on Apr 9, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 9, 2012
-The Telegraph

Trinamul leaders in Singur today urged party MPs and MLAs to donate a month’s salary to help raise a fund for farmers who lost their land to the Tata Nano factory.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has time and again said that the 400 acres for which the farmers have refused to accept compensation would be returned to them but the government is engaged in legal tangle with Tata Motors since July last year. Around 6,000 cultivators had not taken the money.

Addressing a panchayati raj conference in Singur, Trinamul leader Dipak Adhikari, who had participated in the land agitation, said the farmers were in dire straits.

“Many of these people are finding it difficult to arrange for two square meals a day. If the MPs and MLAs of our party donate a month’s salary for these poor people, we can create a fund for them,” Adhikari said.

Most of the 2,500 delegates at the conference burst out into an applause at Adhikari’s proposal.

“Mamata Banerjee had repeatedly told us before last year’s polls that she would return the 400 acres to the original owners. But ten months have passed, nothing has happened. We urge the party leadership to solve the Singur land problem as soon as possible and if necessary involve the Tatas in a discussion,” Adhikari added.

Another Trinamul leader, Joydeep Singha Roy, echoed Adhikari.

“I suggest that the ongoing legal tangle be solved out of court. We also want an industry to be set up on the other 600 acres which has been acquired and for which the land losers have accepted the compensation cheques,” said Singha Roy.

Agriculture minister Rabindranath Bhattacharya, who is also an MLA from Singur, said the proposals would be conveyed to the party leadership. “I know how poor is the condition of the affected farmers and I have heard what our local leaders said today. I will definitely inform the leadership about it,” said Bhattacharya.

Trinamul MLA from adjoining Haripal, Becharam Manna, said he spent most of his Rs 30,000 monthly salary helping the farmers.

“I spend most of my salary helping these farmers. I will speak to others about the proposal raised in today’s conference, ” he said.

The Telegraph, 9 April, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120409/jsp/bengal/story_15351577.jsp#.T4J7XPCO0fU


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