Senior BJP leader Mr Dilip Ghosh, on election campaign in Chandannagar, lashed out at the state Chief Minister and said Didimoni (the state chief minister) has not only cheated the Singur farmers but the educated jobless youths of the district. There are no job opportunities for the educated youths in the state. Chief minister scattered mustard seeds on Singur land but till now it remains barren with no crop cultivation.
January 31, 2022On the questions of Singur and Nandigram, instead of apologising for them, and forgetting that they were instrumental for the CPM's defeat in 2011, the new narrative was that Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's actions were essentially sound, though there were some mistakes. They even forgot to mention that they were not mistakes but blunders.
May 30, 2021Most of the senior leaders of the ruling party, including Singur MLA Mr Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Haripal MLA Mr Beccharam Manna, Uttarpara MLA Mr Prabir Ghosal, the Hooghly district Trinamul president Mr Dilip Yadav and state minister Mr Tapan Das Gupta, were present on the occasion.
December 19, 2019The Gopalnagar mouza however was unaffected by the construction and modification work done by Tata group and the fertility of farmland in Gopalnagar mouza remained unhampered.
December 18, 2019The agitation eventually led to the exit of the proposed small car factory, apart from being a major factor in the Trinamul Congress's coming to power in 2011.
September 15, 2019Given the increasingly belligerent mood on either side of the fence, the six-point charter could turn out to be another issue of furious dispute.
June 16, 2019The farmers have been returned their land without making it suitable for agriculture, ninety per cent of the affected farmers are unable to carry on agriculture in their land.
May 26, 2019Both the media and civil society have been rather muted in their response to the historic Supreme Court judgment of 31 August 2016. It had ordered the West Bengal government to return the 400 acres of fertile and disputed land to the farmers in Singur. The land had been acquired by the Left Front government …
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