The Centre has no scope for intervention in the Singur issue, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here today.
"It would mean return to the old licence raj era ... Centre cannot say on where investments would go," Mukherjee told reporters on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BNCCI).
"I will not comment on Singur. The local leaders of the state have already spoken on this," he said.
The deadlock over the Singur issue has unnerved major Indian investors and overseas as well.
IT major Infosys has said that the situation at Singur was scary. US-India Business Council also cancelled the visit of the executive mission to Kolkata in view of the political developments at Singur.
Even the intervention by West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has failed end the stalemate created by the disagreement between the state government and the Opposition Trinamool Congress over the land allotment to Tata Motors for the small car project.
