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West Bengal Assembly Elections: From land movement to industry, Singur’s resistance has come full circle -Shiv Sahay Singh and Sudipta Datta

-The Hindu

Amid Trinmool-BJP clash in the Hooghly belt, Left revives former CM’s slogan, pushing for development.

Singur: A pile of drain pipes surrounded by farmlands reaping a good potato harvest is all that remains on the 997-acre plot in Singur where the Tata Motors’ Nano factory once stood.

It is almost impossible to locate the site of the factory whose structure was demolished by controlled explosions after the Supreme Court verdict in 2016. The verdict overruled the land acquisition by the Left Front government and in September 2016, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee returned the land to the farmers, with a symbolic sowing of mustard seeds.

Five years later, with the promise of industry on the lips of all political parties fighting the Assembly elections, including the Trinamool Congress, life in Singur has turned full circle. People residing in no other constituency in West Bengal has seen so many cycles as Singur has in the past 15 years, oscillating between agriculture and industry, hope and despair, resistance and triumph.

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