Tata Motors wins Singur land Case in Kolkata High Court

A division bench of the Calcutta high court on Friday struck down the Singur Act promulgated last year to return land to farmers ousted by Tata Motors Ltd’s small car factory. Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Mrinal Kanti Chowdhury said the Act was unconstitutional because of its lack clarity on the compensation to be paid to Tata Motors.

 

The carmaker was last year forcible ousted from its Singur factory under provisions of the said Act.

The Trinamool Congress-led government’s aim was to return land to those farmers who did not receive payment on protest for the land seized from them in 2007 for the now aborted factory.

The state government has been given two months two challenge Friday’s verdict in the Supreme Court and till then it has been barred from distributing land at Singur.

A trial court had in September last year held the Act as valid while pointing out defects in it and suggesting measures to correct them in a bid to resolve the dispute in an amicable manner. Tata Motors challenged the verdict in November.
 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.