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Creating trouble is Mamata's politics: Basu

Special Correspondent

KOLKATA: "Creating trouble is her religion, it is her politics", veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said here on Friday, referring to Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's determination to continue her movement against the Tata Motors' car manufacturing project at Singur till land acquired for it is returned to their owners.

Mr. Basu was speaking to newspersons at the end of a meeting of the CPI (M)'s State Secretariat.

Ms. Banerjee will address a rally at Singur on Saturday, renewing her demand for retuning land that she alleges has "forcibly been acquired." This will be the first public meeting she will be addressing there after November 2006. Mr. Basu supported the State Government's earlier decisions to impose prohibitory orders in the area to prevent any violence there and added that "the State Government would do so again if required".

"We [the Communist Party of India (Marxist)] are behind the government", he added.

On the recent quashing of the orders for the imposition of Section 144 Cr. PC in the Singur area from February 4, the former Chief Minister said that "it was how the judges felt", adding that the State Government was right in imposing the orders when it had felt the need to.

Ms. Banerjee had earlier said that the court's decision had vindicated her stand against the imposition of the prohibitory orders. She had called for Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's resignation in view of the court's observation.

State Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy said that the State administration would consider re-imposing the prohibitory orders at Singur if the situation warranted.

Admitting that there had been some "misunderstanding" over the issue of acquisition of land for industry, Mr. Basu said the process of explaining to the people the Left Front Government's stand on the matter had begun. "Yes, it is true that there has been some misunderstanding. It will take two to three months time to clear the confusion among the people [on the matter] so that they can actually realise what we are trying to do for industry without affecting agricultural prospects", Mr. Basu said. A state-wide campaign is being conducted by the CPI (M) to explain the Government's drive towards industrialisation for the overall development of the economy without jeopardising the success achieved in agriculture.

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