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Singur: Bardhan calls for transparency

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KANNUR: Communist Party of India general secretary A.B. Bardhan has called for "transparency" in the acquisition of farmland at Singur, West Bengal, for a car project and consultation with alliance partners on the issue.

Inaugurating the party function at Parapram here on Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the CPI and the birth anniversary of Communist leader P. Krishna Pillai, Mr. Bardhan said the Left parties, wherever they were in power, should take the people along while carrying out their projects.

Admitting that there were some differences between the CPI and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he said the two parties were fighting for the people's interests.

Referring to the issue of "acquisition of agricultural land" in West Bengal for the development of industries, Mr. Bardhan said that the CPI was for industrial development, though it wanted more transparency in the acquisition of land.

"Let us use the weapon of transparency and let us see that fertile land is given [for development projects] as little as possible," Mr. Bardhan said. Industries should come up and land had to be given, he said.

"What land has to be given and what persuasions have to be used to get the land from the people have to be done in consultation with the partners," he said adding that the party wanted the West Bengal and Kerala Governments to become models of development.

The CPI leader said the party founded this day in 1925 had been born in the country due to the national and international situations that had been shaping the world then.

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