Kolkata: In the backdrop of Tata Motors facing angry demonstrations by farmers at Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday said it has decided categorically that double and multi-crop agricultural lands would not be given for setting up industries.
Tata Motors officials had faced angry demonstration on Thursday at Singur, where they had gone to inspect a possible site for their Rs one lakh people's car project.
Asked whether there was a lack of communication between the government and the people, CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechuri said that it was a different issue if there was any lack of communication and coordination.
West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen had on Friday admitted a communication gap between the government and the villagers and said that farmers should have been properly briefed before taking the Tata Motors team to survey the land at Singur for the new Rs 1,000 crore automobile plant.
Yechury said that the impression that the Buddhadev Bhattacharjee government in West Bengal was toeing a different line from party on industrialisation on agriculture land, was a media creation.
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