Setback For Mamata Banerjee,Tata Wins Singur Battle In Court

A big blow to Mamata Banerjee and her Singur ‘project’! The Calcutta high court today pronounced verdict in favour of Tatas. The division bench of the high court ruled that ‘Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011’ is unconstitutional and invalid.

Mamata Banerjee & Ratan Tata

After a single bench judgement, chaired by Justice Mukerji, ruled that the ‘Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011’ is constitutional, Tata Motors’ appeal against the judge’s order and today three judges division bench chaired by Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Mrinal Kanti Chowdhury ruled in favour of  Tata Motors and term the Act ‘unconstitutional’.

Tata Motors was given a lease of 997 acre at Singur by previous Left Front government for their Nano car project. But the unwilling farmers led by Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee started agitation in front of Tata factory. They were demanding return of 400 acre to unwilling farmers. Due to this agitation Tata Motors decided to close the factory in Singur and moved to Sanand in Gujarat. However they keep the land.

In May 2011, chief minister Mamata Banerjee came to power and passed Singur Act in the assembly by which they can acquire the land and distributed to the unwilling farmers.

Now it is to see how Mamata Banerjee deals with this setback?

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