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Buddhadeb invites Mamta for talks
"We can't let Tatas [Tata Motors] move out of West Bengal," Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said yesterday in his letter to Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee while inviting her for talks to resolve the standoff over farmland acquisition for the Tata Motors small car factory in Singur.
- IANS
- Published: 20:18 August 25, 2008
Kolkata: "We can't let Tatas [Tata Motors] move out of West Bengal," Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said on Monday in his letter to Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee while inviting her for talks to resolve the standoff over farmland acquisition for the Tata Motors small car factory in Singur.
The Trinamool Congress has been spearheading farmers' protests against the project.
"I am ready to discuss everything with Banerjee regarding the Singur land row. I've written in my letter that we'll jointly find a solution for the Tata Motors Singur plant," Bhattacharjee told reporters at the state secretariat.
"I request Banerjee to join the process of dialogue and resolve the matter. We have to solve the issue for the sake of industrialisation of the state," he said.
Bhattacharjee's missive reached Banerjee last evening in Singur, where she is holding an indefinite protest against the takeover of 400 acres from "unwilling farmers".
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