Trinamool threatens to bring privilege motion against Ratan Tata

Kolkata, Jan 2 (UNI) Taking great exception to the allegation of Mr Ratan Tata that rival business forces were behind the Singur movement, the Trinamool Congress today threatened to sue the Tata Group Chairman and bring a privilege motion against him in the West Bengal Assembly.

''We have set a seven-day deadline for Mr Tata to either prove what he said or tender an apology. Otherwise we will file a defamation suit in the court and move a privilege motion against him in the Assembly,'' leader of the Opposition Partha Chatterjee said after a meeting of the party legislators and former MLAs.

Mr Tata had told NDTV during an interview that a competitor of Tata Motors was fuelling the opposition movement against land acquisition at Singur to delay execution of the small car project.

Pointing out that though party supremo Mamata Banerjee had withdrawn her hunger strike, Mr Chatterjee said the Trinamool Congress would continue the agitation on the issue and a decision had been taken to extend the movement to district level.

UNI