Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy on Saturday said the Singur movement, which had catapulted Mamata Banerjee and the TMC to power in West Bengal, was a "mistake", as it neither helped industry in the state nor did any good to the farming community.
Roy's comments came in the backdrop of the BJP's farmers' wing, the Kisan Morcha, planning a mass convention in Singur, which had hogged the limelight in 2006 and 2007 amid widespread protests in West Bengal against the Left Front government.
The agitation had led the Tata group to shift the Nano manufacturing plant out of the state.
"The Singur movement by Mamata Banerjee was a mistake and completely wrong. It neither served the purpose of industry nor agriculture.
"The farmers are now suffering as the land there cannot be used for agricultural purpose. I was then a part of the TMC, but I feel that the movement was wrong," he said.
Reacting to Roy's claim, the TMC leadership termed him as an "oppurtunist".
"Now, he (Roy) feels it ..
