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| Ratan Tata Has 'Lost His Mind', |
| Ratan Tata Has 'Lost His Mind', Says Bengal Minister Amit Mitra, Stung by Criticism
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| INDIA
, 7-August-2014
7:33:35 AM |
| Ratan Tata has "lost his mind", West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra has said, rattled by the top industrialist's comment that he has not noticed any industrial development in the state.
"Onar motibhrom hoyeche (Maybe he has lost his mind). Maybe he hasn't got the information. I don't know why he said this. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has said it will create 20,000 jobs in a new campus. Maybe he hasn't kept tabs. Tata Metallicks applied to us last week. They want to expand. Doesn't he know Anil Ambani is investing here? If I give you a list, it will take all day. Perhaps he should concentrate on his other hobbies like flying planes." Mr Mitra said.
The minister was speaking on the sidelines of an industry meet on Wednesday, hours after Mr Tata made comments critical of Bengal and his experience in Singur, where a farmers' agitation backed by Mamata Banerjee forced him to shift a Tata Nano plant to Sanand in Gujarat.
Mr Tata, the 73-year-old Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, said at an interaction in Kolkata that shifting the Nano plant in 2008 was a good decision.
"In hindsight, it was a prudent decision, given the hostile circumstances in Singur. But that move gave us a high negative cost," Mr Tata shared, describing it as the biggest challenge he faced in his career.
"If you hold a gun to my head, you can pull the trigger or take the gun away. But the head will not move," he joked.
Three years after the Singur row, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress took power in Bengal with a massive mandate.
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