Siliguri:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that the Tata group, led by industrialist Ratan Tata, was forced to shift the proposed Tata Nano factories from Singur in Hooghly district to Gujarat by the-then Left Front government, and not her.
"I did not chase Tata, CPI(M) chased them out. They had occupied people's land by force, which we have returned. We have conducted so many projects, but never needed to forcefully take someone's land," she said at an event in Kawakhali in Siliguri.
"You all remember the problems this area faced. To all industrialists here, I would like to say, 'we do not discriminate'" she further added. The CM's North Bengal visit, meanwhile, gathers significance amid reports of a growing division between the Northern and Southern parts of the state.