Tata's pull-out is victory of people: Mamata

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The Tata's pull-out of the small car project from Singur is a ‘victory’ of the people and the party's peaceful movement against forcible land acquisition, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee claimed.

"It is a victory of the people and the peaceful movement at Singur. And, now it is time to bid farewell also to the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government," Banerjee told reporters.

"Ratan Tata said a lot of bad things against us and belittled a people's peaceful movement against forcible farmland acquisition. He should not play with fire," she said.

On yesterday's comment made by Tata that "Mamata pulled the trigger", she said, "It does not behove well to accuse one party while speaking as 'His Master's Voice' (CPI-M) of another party. He is an industrialist and should see that there is good relationship between agriculture and industry.

He should not behave politically.

"We are not against any individual. He may accuse us. It is his culture. Our culture is pro-people.

"All industrialists are welcome to invest in West Bengal, but the state Government is trigger-happy which we will not allow...CPI(M) is shedding tears for the Tatas, but why not for the poor farmers...12 of them died in Singur...."

Reiterating her demand for return of land, the TC supreme said a statewide movement will be launched after the pujas for it.

She is planning to meet the Prime Minister and the

president between October 13 and 15 seeking Centre's intervention in the state, Banerjee said.

On the other hand, the CPI(M) said the "voice of majority" supporting it could not prevail due to "petty politics" and exuded confidence that there would be no exodus of investment from the Left-ruled state.

"It is unfortunate that the people of Bengal had to pay the price for such petty politics. The voice of the majority has not prevailed. Out of 13,000 farmers of Singur, more than 11,000 had given their consent for the Nano project," party Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said here.

Even Chief Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh, while inviting Tatas to shift the project, "said Maharashtra had no politician like (Trinamool Congress chief) Mamata. Their politics has played havoc with lives and livelihood of the people and the future of the entire eastern region," he said.

Singur could have become a major automobile hub in the entire Eastern region. Such hubs, he said, existed in the Southern and Western parts of the country.