Mamata Banerjee scatters mustard seeds to bring Singur back to life

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has initiated the process of returning Singur land back to farmers. The farmland had been acquired to set up an automobile factory to manufacture the Nano cars by Tata Motors but, after a decade, the Singur agitation has come a full circle Mamata Banerjee stepped on the now-flattened land at the deserted Tata Nano site and scattered a few mustard seeds.
On the occasion, she said that "forcible land acquisition for industry" was just a "passing phase".
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 21 October 2016.

Mamata Banerjee reminded the landowners that work to make much of the 997.11 acres arable was still underway and added that 'one has to fight for rights. They aren't handed over on a platter. It is a continuous process.'
One of the landowners at the project site said that she had three bighas of land but, only 5 cottahs were handed over. Moreover, it was a three-crop land, which included paddy and potato and she got a bagful of mustard seeds from the CM. Incidentally, she has never grown mustard before but has been told that mustard usually doesn't need any fertilizer and also needs less water (only two inches a week).
The CM indicated that while farmers can start cultivating mustard immediately, they can in due course move over to potato and paddy also.


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