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Buddhadeb’s concern

If there is a slender hope that the Tatas will not abandon their small car project at Singur, it is because of Mr. Buddhadeb Bahattacharjee who has kept his cool (September 22) in spite of provocations and an array of problems let loose by his detractors.

It is rare to find a mature and pragmatic leader like Mr. Bhattacharjee these days when politicians stoop to any level to get their voice heard.

P. U. Krishnan,

Udhagamandalam

While the Trinamool Congress leader, Mamata Banerjee, is demanding 300 acres to be returned to the farmers from the project area, the West Bengal government has offered 70 acres without disturbing the project’s auto-cluster. While appreciating her concern for the poor farmers, the questions one would like to pose are: Are these farmers of 300 acres the poorest of the poor in West Bengal? Why can’t the party show some interest in the poorest of the poor who do not own any land nor have any access to a decent income (with the country spending trillions of rupees, nearly half of it on defence)?

V.S. Venkatavaradan,

Salem

Independent India’s industrial policy envisaged a mixed economy with an overall responsibility of the government for planned development of industries and their regulation in the national interest. While it reiterated the right of the state to acquire an industrial undertaking in the public interest, it reserved an appropriate share for the private enterprise too to supplement the efforts of the state in the era of industrialisation. In the best interest of the country, the Opposition in West Bengal must allow Singur to become another Jamshedpur.

M. Satyanarayana Rao,

Hanamkonda

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