From correspondents in West Bengal, India, 06:30 PM IST
The second round of talks being mediated by West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to find a solution to the 28-month dispute over the land allotted to Tata Motors' Nano project at Singur ended inconclusively here Saturday.
'I am not saying it was negative,' said Partho Chattopadhyay, senior leader of Trinamool Congress that is spearheading the agitation and wants the government to return 400 acres out of 997.11 acres acquired for the project and ancillary units.
'The talks will resume tomorrow,' he added emerging from the meeting at the official residence of the governor that was also attended by the representatives of the West Bengal government.
His colleagues said progress was being made.
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If the Tatas are enabled to finally go ahead with their proposed car project at Singur, all parties will be doing a signal service to the nation by passing a parliamentary resolution to adopt negotiations and to eschew violence, strikes, agitations, and so on, as a basic right or or as a means to solving problems of workers like rising cost of living. It was sad that a farmer who willingly gave his land for Nano with an assurance of jobs at the plants for his sons, took his life thinking that that would not happen due to singur not coming up.
If the Tatas deferring to the decision arrived at in the meeting between the Governor, the Minister and the Trinamul congress, are inclined to continue with the Nano project in Singur, it will be prudent for them to take a guarantee that industrial peace at the plant and for carrying on business will be ensured by the ruling party and the Opposition, without recourse to strikes, violence, and the like and that wages related or other labour issues will be solved through talks.
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