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Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee at Singur. Photo Courtesy: AFP
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee at Singur. Photo Courtesy: AFP

Mamata to resist Tata's entry into retail

Sat-Aug 30, 2008

Singur / Press Trust of India

Keeping up her anti-Tata tirade on the seventh day of her party's indefinite dharna, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that her party would resist the group's presumptive entry into West Bengal's retail sector.

“If the Tatas are allowed to enter the retail sector, it will spell disaster for small traders which Trinamool Congress will resist through movements," Banerjee said from her dharna 'manch' (dais) in Singur.

Stating her party's pre-announced programme of holding a rally here on September 1 in support of small retailers, she said it will be a meeting to safeguard the interests of poor retailers already facing hardship in face of entry of large industries into the sector.

Ridiculing the CPI-M's proposed grand rally in Kolkata on the same day, the Trinamool supremo said, "The Marxists speak against imperialists but are, in effect, backing capitalists' interests just like they are now doing in case of the Tatas."

Banerjee, whose party is on indefinite dharna for the seventh day to demand return of 400 acres to 'unwilling' farmers, alleged that instead of solving people's problems, CPI-M, has 'messed up everything'.

“'Starting from Singur to Nandigram and Rizwanur Rehman's mysterious death case, each time the CPI-M and its government have landed in a mess,” she claimed.
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