After making this contention, a TMC party insider said, “It’s a myth that the CPIM has transferred its twothird votes to the BJP. Had it been a fact, such quantum of votes ought to have been cast for the CPI-M in the last year election,” he added.
Becchram Manna, the MLA Haripal, who was also the foremost leader of the Singur movement, during the BGM program at Kamarkundu said, “The success credit of Singur movement equally goes to the Press. Regularly, news correspondents risked their lives, gave coverage to the brutality aimed towards the villagers trying to safeguard their agricultural land from the left front government (in power) for the automobile production.
