Tatas had sought land at Kharagpur, not Singur, for Nano Plant

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Senior West Bengal Minister Partha Chattopadhay on Sunday claimed the Tata Motors had sought land for the Nano car project in Kharagpur, but it was the then Left Front government which had allotted land in Singur for the plant in 2006. Over three weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the land acquisition for the project and ordered that the land be returned to its original owners, state Education and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chattopadhyay attacked the LF regime for "snatching multi-crop land for the project". 

 

Addressing a rally in Singur of Hooghly district, about 40 km from here, Chattopadhyay said the Trinamool Congress had wanted the Nano to be rolled out from the state. "But we wanted the factory to come up on a land earmarked for industry, and not on multi-crop agricultural land." 

 

He said as the leader of opposition in the assembly then, he had demanded time and again that the agreement between the Tata Motors and the state government be placed in the House.