14 years on, Nandigram, cradle of Bengal s anti-land acquisition stir, craves for industrial growth
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Last Updated: Mar 14, 2021, 02:06 PM IST
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Although the discrete constituency stands polarised along political and communal lines, parties and locals, notwithstanding the differences, believe that setting up of industry would be welcomed with open arms unlike 2007, when it had faced stiff opposition.
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The BJP, which is leaving no stone unturned to defeat Banerjee, has, on its part, promised to set up industries in the area to ensure unemployed youths get jobs.
Fourteen years after a bloody farmland agitation in Nandigram changed West Bengal s political landscape, and plans to set up a chemical hub there went kaput, residents of this once-obscure constituency now desperately want industrial development to stop their menfolk from leaving home in search of work.
Minutes before arriving at the venue Mamata Banerjee tweeted, We will continue to fight boldly! I m still in lot of pain, but I feel pain of my people even more .