Tata workers' protest against threats

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BS Reporter New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 19 2013 | 10:47 PM IST

Work in the Tata’s Nano car factory at Singur in West Bengal today came to a complete halt today as the workers did not turn up for work.

According company spokes person said that the workers’ have struck work to lodge their protest against threats given to them by the opposition cadres led by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.

TMC workers have launched a protest sit-in outside the factory site to demand that the Tata’s should return the land to the farmers.

It is for the first time that the work at the car actory has been suspended ever since the factory had got mired in the opposition protests.

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First Published: Aug 29 2008 | 8:13 PM IST

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