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Modi’s open letter to Buddhadeb, Mamata

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The open letter was published in Anand Bazaar Patrika
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KOLKATA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has, in an “open letter” to his counterpart in West Bengal, told Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that given the work culture in the State, the situation is not yet one in which Tata Motors’ Nano project can come up, much that the latter would want it to.

Mr. Modi said that despite Mr Bhattacharjee’s efforts to usher in industrialization in West Bengal neither the party he belongs to nor his administration is yet totally by his side on the matter.

The letter that was published in Sunday’s edition of the Bengali daily Ananda Bazaar Patrika was being released through the newspaper with the intention that it reached the largest section of the State, Mr. Modi said.

It was written to clear any misunderstanding that might exist among the people of West Bengal that the Gujarat had snatched away the project from them, he added.

Tata Motors have decided to relocate their Nano project at Sanand in Gujarat that was to have come up at Singur.

Words of advice

Mr. Modi also had words of advice for Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee He has suggested that she shun negative agitation and not become ultra-left in attempts to counter the Left forces.

Instead, the right-wing path should be pursued in West Bengal to forge an alternative.

Citing the case of the Nano project, he told Ms. Banerjee, that in Gujarat even Opposition doesn’t engage in politics over industrialisation.

The task of creating something is difficult; but to destroy it takes a minute, he said.

‘Dialogue needed’

In his letter to Mr. Bhattacharjee he has admitted that in comparison to Gujarat the acreage of agricultural land in West Bengal is higher. It is necessary to have a dialogue with the Opposition on land acquisition issues as it was done in Gujarat.

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