Date:11/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/11/stories/2008101154991200.htm

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Singur residents demand Nano project back

Staff Reporter

KOLKATA: A section of residents of Singur started an indefinite agitation there from Friday demanding that the Tata Motors small car project — which has now been relocated to Sanand in Gujarat — be set up in Singur as originally planned.

The agitation is being held outside the site where the project had been coming up prior to the decision to relocate it.

“We want the small car project back in Singur at any cost. Our future depends on it,” said Manas Ghosh, Secretary of the ‘Nano Bachao (Save Nano) Committee,’ under whose banner the agitation is being held.

Mr. Ghosh told The Hindu over phone from Singur that residents of the area were participating in the agitation irrespective of party affiliation.

“All the unemployed youth, landless farmers and intellectuals of Singur have come together in this agitation,” he said.