‘Irreparable loss’: Mamata Banerjee, who led Singur movement against Nano plant, pays tribute to Ratan Tata

In 2006, the Left Front had returned to powerfulness successful Bengal connected the backmost of industrialisation and jobs. That May, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had announced that Tata would beryllium fixed astir 1,000 acres to acceptable up a works to manufacture the Nano — branded arsenic the world’s cheapest car.

However, the government’s efforts to instrumentality power of the onshore ran into hurdles. A radical of section radical and tiny parties similar SUCI(C) and CPI(ML) protested against the bid to instrumentality implicit the “fertile” cropland. However, the acquisition was completed, and enactment began connected gathering the Nano plant.

In 2007 came Mamata Banerjee and with her, a question against the Left Front government. Trinamool Congress cadres had clashed with constabulary and the medication successful the Singur halfway manufacture area. Mamata past began a 26-day hunger onslaught that gained the enactment of salient biology activists.

In January 2008, Tata Motors announced the motorboat of the Nano astatine the New Delhi car expo. Soon afterward, the Calcutta High Court upheld the onshore allocation to the company.

Meanwhile, arsenic Mamata’s agitation gained momentum, attempts by past authorities Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to broker bid betwixt her and the authorities besides failed. With the concern tense, Tata Motors decided to propulsion the accumulation of the Nano retired of West Bengal, and made its announcement connected October 3, 2008. On the invitation of Narendra Modi, past Chief Minister of Gujarat, the institution took the works to Sanand successful Ahmedabad district.

On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee remembered Ratan Tata, who passed away astatine Breach Candy Hospital successful Mumbai connected Wednesday night.

“Saddened by the demise of Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Sons. The erstwhile Chairman of Tata Group had been a foremost person of Indian industries and a public-spirited philanthropist. His demise volition beryllium an irreparable nonaccomplishment for Indian concern satellite and society. My condolences to each his household members and colleagues,” she wrote connected X.