If Tata pull out then the Nano launch can get delayed.

Another day, and nothing ever changes in India. We are SO good at protests, aren’t we?

The moral of the story is … never catch a tiger by the tail.

If only Mamta was also made part of the initial discussions, this hearbreak could have been averted or minimised.

You can change the mindset of a few individuals with proper training. However here large sections of the population are ignorant, fearful and resistant to change. How can the good intentions of a few counteract the resistance of the majority… That is the question. May good sense prevail with both the parties.

TATA pulls out NANO gets delayed, where is the concept in this idea??? It doesn’t make sense it would be lose lose situation not a winning one

well protests are not really uncalled for here … imaging loosing your house (and profession) for some cheap compensation in the name of development. the problem here is not with the tata but with the government that behaves like a mini chinese government thrusting its communist policies on the lower (and sometimes lowermost society). this is the meaning of democracy my friends … at the risk of sounding annonying to my fellow auto and industrial enthusiasts … my heart (if not 100% of my brain) is with the poor peasants of singur (damn the politicians though)

7 Reasons why Mamata Bannerjee is an Idiot

1. She is a hypocrite: Mamata Bannerjee is saying she is not against industry. She wants industry and agriculture to exist side by side. Liar! She has been demanding that TATA Motors give back 400 acres of land to the unwilling farmers. TATA Motors has said several times that the factory and the ancillary units must be made together, to avoid transportation costs. If transportation costs are added, the world’s cheapest car cannot be manufactures. To give back 400 acres of land means top stop the plant for the world’s cheapest car.
2. She is a petty rowdy: How dare Mamata Bannerjee blocks a national highway for 8 days, holds back 20,000 trucks, 80,000 truck employees, and lets perishable goods worth Rs 200 crore rot for 4 days! She did not even allow ambulances to pass with patients and dead-bodies. She is no different from rowdies, who give pain to common people, hold them hostage, and cause waste of goods and property. Shame!
3. She is a liar: She promised a ‘peaceful’ siege. She lied. On the fifth day of her siege of the TATA Motors factory we saw her people stopping the engineers (including foreigners) and workers of TATA Motors from leaving the factory. They were held up for an hour for the not so peaceful supporters of Mamata, who threatened the workers not to come from the next day. We saw that the workers of TATA Motors did not turn up from the sixth day in fear of getting physically attacked and assaulted.
4. She is impractical: She says she will not stop till she gets back 400 acres of land from the TATAs. The plots of the unwilling farmers are scattered throughout the 1000 acres of land being used for the TATA Motors plant. She knows this; yet she keeps saying she wants these plots back. Which means, she wants the plant to wind up. Without winding up the plant, it is not possible to return the plots to the unwilling farmers. Yet she dares to say, “Let industry and agriculture co-exist!” Secondly, the present law does not allow the government to return any land to the previous owners. Land once acquired, can only be auctioned to the highest bidder.
5. She is selfish: She is ignoring the pleas of millions of willing people, who want progress and industrialization, just for her petty political gains. She has an eye on the vote bank of the villages of West Bengal, and that is her driving force rather than anything else. She knows very well, the land cannot be used for agriculture anymore. Thousands of people in West Bengal are scared about their future if the wheel of progress is halted by this selfish opposition leader. People in thousands have been coming to Salt Lake Sector V to give their signatures. They are unanimous that the state of West Bengal has to move on. Those who want to halt this progress are nothing but the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
6. She is short sighted: She is short sighted to realize that the state of West Bengal at present is nowhere in the map of developed states of India, which are magnets for investors. The coming of TATA Motors was probably the silver lining and an opportunity for West Bengal and Kolkata to move ahead at par with developed places like Bangaluru, Hydrabad, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Chennai, Noida and New Delhi. If TATA Motors has to go back from Singur, that will not doubt be a very sad incident and a very dark day for West Bengal. It will be followed by a heavy exodus of intelligent people (phenomenon known as ‘brain drain’) out of West Bengal in the next few years.
7. She is an idiot: The land which she wants back cannot be used for agriculture for the next 15 – 20 years, according to experts, as it has been filled with cement, gravel and fly ash till 15 feet depth. Thus, if TATA Motors leaves Singur and goes to another state, the land she is demanding for the unwilling farmers will lie barren and unutilized for the next 15 – 20 years, and the greatest losers will be the farmers for whom she is fighting.

Mamata Banerjee!!
The name reminds only about protests, clinched fists and slogans against the ruling party. From the very early days, we have known Mamata only by that behavior and things has not changed even today. She is as rowdy and ill-mannered till today. Now, she has got Singur to express her protests and gain some milleage out of this never-ending situation. What she gains out of this is not the matter to discuss, but every single person’s heart goes out to the poor farmers who blindly supports her hoping endlessly for something good to happen.
Only one single question needs to be answered now: will the farmers, whose lands have been taken for TATA’s Nano project, gain something out of this dharna by Mamata, whatever be the outcome? If TATA plans to shut down, will the farmers be helped by Ms. Mamata Banerjee to lead a life they used to have before or she thinks that she has won a moral victory over the ruling govt. and leaves Singur keeping the farmers wondering about their future?