Singur - Can government acquire land for private good ?

Prime fertile agricultural land is being forcibly acquired from peasants in Singur, West Bengal. Singur land, coated with silt from the Hoogly and Damodar rivers and their tributaries, is very fertile. To say that it is single - crop land is blatantly to distort the truth. About six to twelve crops grow on Singur's highly productive fields. The government has acquired 997.11 acres of land from poor farmers and handed over to a private company, taht is, Tata Motors. This is happening when Indian agriculture is in crisis, farm productivity is stagnating and declined and the country is facing acute shortage of food grains.
Singur land grabbing case (West Bengal) has resulted in a flare up between the local people and the Communist regime because of the insensitive and neo-capitalist mindset of the present leadership in West Bengal. The State government seems to be so much worried about big industries that it is playing with the lives of hundreds of farmers by snatching away their fertile lands in the name of industrialisation. Those who took to the streets in protest were brutally beaten up and put behind bars. Trinamul Congress President Ms Mamta Banerjee vociferously opposing the Tata Project in Singur was physically and mentally tortured by Communist parties in every possible way to force her to with-draw the agitation. But she is not the person to submit so easily. Her agitation drew the attention of every pro-farmer activist and leader in the country. The Singur issue hit national headlines when BJP President Shri Rajnath Singh decided to lend moral support to this agitation of farmers. He immediately rushed to Kolkata on the evening of December 3 after getting the news of three protesters having being killed in police firing. He met Sushree Mamta Banerjee and assured full support to her cause. Shri L. K. Advani and Smt. Sushma Swaraj also visited the agitating farmers and families of those killed to express our solidarity with them.