Amit Mitra has quite unnecessarily walked in to a controversy. Whatever the provocation, and however wrong Ratan Tata may have been in searching for industrial development in Rajarhat, decorum requires that the minister remembers his high office as also the reputation of the other person. Singur blackened Bengal's name, first by the wrong methods used to acquire prime agricultural land, and then for driving out an industrial unit when it was about to begin production. Bengal has reached such a low level of aspiration and capability that not even a Nano plant would have done any good for a broader industrial revival. The past cannot be undone, but the way Amit Mitra, his chief minister and other colleagues are working, the future seems as bright as it was under the Left.
P Datta, Kolkata
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