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Basu welcomes Mamata’s offer for talks with Tatas

KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s willingness to sit for talks with the Tata Motors on its upcoming automobile project at Singur in West Bengal’s Hooghly district.

The State government too has no objection to the talks being held, Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said.

“It is very good if the talks [between the Trinamool Congress leadership and the Tata Motors authorities] are held…but what they [the Trinamool] will want I do not know,” Mr. Basu said.

Ms. Banerjee had threatened indefinite sit-ins outside the Singur project site from August 24 unless 400 acres of the land she believes to have been forcibly acquired by the State authorities for the plant (out of the 997 acres) is returned to their former owners.

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