Click to play videoKolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has called a dawn to dusk bandh in Singur on Saturday protesting Tatas decision take the Nano plant out of the state.
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata finally pulled out the Nano project on Friday because of continuing political opposition in Singur.
Now CPI-M is blaming the Trinamool Congress for rendering more than 10,000 land givers jobless.
The party is planning a counter-movement against the Trinamool and Singur Zonal Committee Secretary Amar Chanda said they will lay siege on the Durgapur Expressway that runs beside the land where the Nano plant was being built.
Farmers who had given their land for the Nano project blocked the Durgapur Expressway on Friday night. The blockade was removed on Saturday afternoon.
They say with the Nano project wound up they are left with neither land nor livelihood. They also burnt tyres and raised slogans against those who opposed the project.
Chanda said Tatas decision to pullout has shocked the residents of the area and also blamed the Trinamool and its allies, who he said worked on behalf of just 2,000 land losers, for destroying the future of Singur as well as that West Bengal.
CPI-M Politburo member Sitaram Yechury backed the West Bengal government for its stand on the Singur issue.
"Maharashtra Chief Minister told Ratan Tata that you will have no problems in our state because we have no politicians like Mamata Banerjee. We do not believe that this will effect the CPM or the state government because we have shown our unwavering commitment to industrialisation in the state," Yechury said.
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