Nano's Withdrawal from Bengal

More than a month ago, I had feared that the Tata's would withdraw the Nano project from Bengal.
Unfortunately for Bengal but fortunately for Tata, he has withdrawn.
Ratan Tata has been saved a perpetual headache because of the likes of Mamta Banerjee and Lakshman Seth(CPM MP from Haldia) of Haldia reputation
Now, where will Tata go?
I had written a letter to my paper, The Telegraph, which I have pasted here to give my views where Nano will go.

Radheshyam

Editor,
The Telegraph.

Sir,

Mr Ratan Tata has rightly decided to withdraw the Nano project from Singur. But while withdrawing he says that the trigger of the gun was pulled by Mamata Banerjee.
I disagree with him in this.
The trigger was pulled by Jyoti Basu 41 years ago when he introduced the militant brand of trade unionism in Bengal and we witnessed the unique sight of a Chief Minister (Ajoy Mukherjee) sitting in dharna against his own government.
Jyoti Basu continues to pull the trigger from his sick bed and he has worthy successors in Biman Basu and Prakash Karat. You will recall how they all ganged up against Buddhadev Bhattacharya when he declared that there would be no more strikes in Bengal.
Bengal presently has only one industry flourishing.
The real estate and building promotion. This is because the CPM gets a cut in all such deals.
The IT and BPO industry had started growing but because of bandhs called by Mamta Banerjee and Jyoti Basu and others once every quarter, that industry loses twelve extra days every year, besides the other holidays. So it is just a matter of time before they too wind up.
Infosys has already fired the first shot.
Now, where will Tata take the Nano.
He has a number of states competing for it.
He has probably short listed Gujarat,Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttarkhanda.
Uttarkanda will lose because of the Chipco movement. Tata would not like to land from frying pan to fire.
Maharashtra will lose out because of Raj Thackery and his militancy which is very similar to Mamta's.
Karnataka will lose out because of the violence against the Christians. We will not discuss here as to who is at fault.
That leaves only Gujarat. In spite of his fame for all the wrong reasons. Modi still has the reputation of giving the cleanest governmenrt in India.
I would bet on Tata chosing Gujarat.

R S Sharma

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