New Delhi: Amid controversy surrounding the Tata small car project, CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat said on Tuesday that the Singur venture, will, in fact, create jobs for 12,000 families.
"Unlike in Punjab, Maharashtra and Gujarat, where thousands of acres are being taken away without consultations with farmers for SEZs, the West Bengal government, in consultation with farmers, fixed a price per acre much above the market rate," PTI quoted Brinda as saying.
She emphasized that the CPI-M was working in the interest of the people and that the rehabilitation package in Singur was unique.
She added that those opposing the project did not want the state to progress. She was lashing out at Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee, who, on Monday, had issued a 10-day deadline to the West Bengal Government to withdraw permission to the Tata project.
Mamata demanded that certain other demands were met, even as construction for it continued.
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