We’ll not bail out WB Govt on Singur: Centre

Blaming CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for the impasse in Singur, Dasmunshi said WB Govt was hurrying with industrialisation.

Barely two days after Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath’s offer of the Centre’s ‘facilitating’ role in ending the Singur land impasse, his Cabinet colleague Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi on Thursday made it clear that the Union Government would not take any responsibility in bailing out its counterpart in West Bengal on the issue.

“Kamal Nath has said something. But as a Central minister I want to make it clear that the Union Government will not take the responsibility of bailing out the West Bengal government from the Singur crisis,” Dasmunshi said at the 55th anniversary celebration of Chhatra Parishad.

Blaming Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for the impasse in Singur, Dasmunshi said the state government was now hurrying with industrialisation after sitting idle for 33 years. Singur is the baby of Buddhadeb Bhattracharjee. It is he who will have to protect and nurture it.”

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The policy under which the land was acquired in Singur was formulated by the NDA regime and not by the UPA, Dasmunshi claimed adding that the UPA was against acquisition of fertile land, favoured economic and social rehabilitation package for land losers and direct talks between entrepreneurs and land owners in deciding the price of land.

Asserting that the Congress was the first to begin a ‘satyagraha’ at Singur on the farmland acquisition issue, Dasmunshi, also the WBPCC president, said it would organize demonstrations at district headquarters on September 3 and 8. “Thereafter, there will be protests wherever the Chief Minister goes.”