5 months ago
2
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) addressed a nationalist gathering astatine Singur successful Hooghly territory and said that dissimilar galore she had kept her committedness of returning onshore to the radical of the area.
The nationalist gathering by the Chief Minister comes 9 days aft Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a nationalist gathering astatine Singur. “I was acceptable to dice for Singur. I promised that onshore would beryllium returned to farmers, and I kept my promise. What person you done? Nothing. Except for lecturing, you person done nothing. Have you ever laid a ceramic here,” Ms. Banerjee said.
Singur has been synonymous with the conflict against forcible onshore acquisition that brought Mamata Banerjee to powerfulness successful the State successful 2011. Singur, is besides looked upon arsenic the tract wherever the dreams of industrialisation of West Bengal met a dormant extremity aft Tata Motors decided to displacement the tiny car mill retired of the State.
During his address, the Prime Minister had touched connected however Trinamool Congress’ syndicate taxation and deteriorating instrumentality and bid concern was not conducive to mounting up industries successful the State. But overmuch to the disappointment of the radical who had travel to his nationalist meeting, Mr. Modi did not marque immoderate announcement of investments astatine Singur.
The Chief Minister connected the different manus announced improvement projects successful the vicinity of the abandoned Tata Motors tiny car mill tract and claimed that these initiatives volition make employment for thousands of section youths.
“We person built an agro-industrial parkland implicit 8 acres of onshore successful Singur. We person commissioned a backstage concern parkland wherever Amazon and Flipkart volition acceptable up warehouses and make employment for thousands of radical successful Singur,” she said.
Ms. Banerjee said that some agriculture and manufacture volition thrive successful Singur. Several farmers who person got their onshore returned aft the Supreme Court had acceptable speech the onshore acquisition accidental that the onshore is nary longer suitable for cultivation.
The Chief Minister said that she would not let the BJP to participate Bengal and came down heavy connected the Union authorities for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Ms. Banerjee claimed that ECI wants to delete names of 2 crore voters and power the result of the Assembly polls.
“You are deleting the names of morganatic voters successful the guise of SIR. Don’t you person religion successful the people? Will the ECI, by removing 2 crore names, determine who volition beryllium capable to vote? Or volition the radical determine who volition travel to powerfulness done their votes? This is democracy, not autocracy. I privation to pass the autocrats,” she said.
The Chief Minister was expected to sojourn New Delhi wherever she was expected to conscionable the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar successful the adjacent fewer days. Ms. Banerjee, nevertheless said that she had cancelled her plans owed to the demise of Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar successful an craft crash.
