West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said her government was committed to return land to “unwilling” farmers in Singur.
“We will return the land. It is our commitment. The case is in the Supreme Court. You will get justice. There is no cause for worry,” the Trinamool Congress supremo said while addressing an election meeting here in Hooghly district.
“As long as I am alive there will not be any injustice to you. We will continue to give rice at Rs. 2 per kg,” she said asking “Did the CPI (M), the Congress and the BJP bother to look after you ?”
Tata Motors had shifted their Nano car plant to Gujarat from Singur in the face of Ms. Banerjee’s fierce movement against forcible farmland acquisition.
After coming to power in 2011, the Mamata Banerjee government hand enacted Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, that allowed it to reclaim the 400 acres land given to Tata Motors.
The Act was, however, struck down by Calcutta High Court.
