Thursday, August 28, 2008

Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow?

This is in continuation of my earlier article posted a few days back advising Mr Ratan Tata not to expect any production from the Nano factory which he is planning to set up in Bengal.
The developments during the last few days, has just confirmed my views.
Our pragmatic chief minister, Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharya, poor chap, he is a lamb thrown among the wolves, while speaking at a meeting with industrialists remarked that left to him, he would not allow any strikes or bandhs (Jyoti babu's birthday bashes) in the state.
The whole CPM party , right from top to bottom, were up in arms against him for making such sacrilegious statements.
Even the IT sector, which does not have workers, only white collared staff, are not allowed to work on bandhs called by either the left front or by Mamata Banerjee.
How can you expect a factory which employs skilled and unskilled workers to be allowed to function?
Mr. Ratan Tata, it is still not too late.
Forget your 1500 crores and take your project to some other state like Maharashtra, or Gujarat or Tamil Nadu.
I think they would willingly give you the 1500 crores you have spent here for they know the the revenue your project would bring to their state would be much much more than that.
And while going you could thank Mamata Banerjee for having opened your eyes and avoided a folly.
India is lucky that the old saying "What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow" is no longer applicable.
Bengal has stopped thinking, it is in coma.
Rajiv Gandhi was right when he said Kolkata is a dead city although we were annoyed with him at that time.

Radheshyam

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