Tata Motors' chairman Ratan Tata will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee here tomorrow (Oct 3) to discuss the fate of Nano project in the state which is in limbo."I will discuss with Ratan Tata, all aspects of the small car project, which is now in uncertainty," Bhattacharjee told reporters when asked what assurance his government would give to the Tatas to go ahead with the project, where work has remained suspended for over a month.
Government sources said that the meeting would take place at Writers' Buildings in the afternoon. The proposed meeting, sources said, would try to find a solution to the impasse which has led to suspension of work at the Nano project at Singur due to political reasons since August 29.
While the state government has assured Tata that all help would be extended for resumption of work at Singur, Tatas have said that it was not possible for Tata Motors to work under police protection. Tata has also said that they would be forced to shift the Nano project from Singur if normalcy was not restored at the project area.
With the prospects of Nano rolling out from Singur now becoming bleak, Bhattacharjee had written to Tata asking him not to pull out and expressed his desire for a meeting on the issue. Ratan Tata had replied to Bhattacharjee's letter a few days ago, expressing his intention to meet him to discuss the impasse at the project.
The Chief Minister in his letter to Ratan Tata said no more disruptions will occur. “We assure you of police protection,” he said. The letter was seen as a last-ditch effort by Buddhadeb to salvage the Nano car project. West Bengal Industries Minister Nirupam Sen also stated, the state government was trying its best to retain the Nano project in Singur.

The letter by the Chief Minister was sent after decision at the state cabinet meet to appeal to both the Tatas to implement the project in West Bengal, as well as to the opposition to cooperate in the interest of the state. The meeting adopted a resolution strongly favouring the Tata Motors Singur project, becoming a virtual reality in West Bengal for the sake of industrialisation and employment generation in the state.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee had met Sonia Gandhi on September 30 (2008), over the Singur issue and demanded central intervention in WB, under Article 355 of the Constitution to “protect” the interests of farmers there.“The Centre cannot keep mum. It must intervene to protect the interests of farmers as well as that of the industry,” Mamata told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with Gandhi.

Trinamool Congress has further mentioned, it was willing for future talks on Singur issue if Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi takes an initiative for this. "We had responded to the invitation for talks on Singur in the past. The Governor is the constitutional head. We will go every time he calls us," Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee referred in a public meeting.
Without responding to the State Cabinet's appeal for cooperation, Mamata cited, "If the government really wants the Tata Motors unit to come up at Singur, why did it not operationalise the (September 7) agreement? The government took recourse to a canard against us, although we are for both industry and agriculture".
Trinamool Congress did not ask the Tata Motors to leave Singur, as Mamata categorically emphasised, "Let both agriculture and industry smile." Mamata also added, the state government and the CPM were claiming that the September 7 agreement was a 'declaration' and not an accord. "They are cheating us. They have also insulted the Governor by violating the agreement", she charged.
Reading out the copy of 'agreement', Mamata informed her party was ready for a 'land-based solution'. She also proclaimed, the industry should purchase land and quipped, "Why should land be acquired forcefully?" Meanwhile, truckloads of material have started rolling out of the Singur Nano factory, a sign that Tata Motors is on an exit route from West Bengal.