Sourav speaks for Tata Nano project, Trinamool slams him

Batting for the Nano car project, former India cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly today joined the chorus supporting the Tata venture saying it created "a future for us" and warned that West Bengal would become a "dark spot" if the project is shifted from Singur.    

 "The starting of the Nano project will be a beginning of an era in West Bengal which will completely revolutionalise the prospect of the state and the future of the youth of our state," Ganguly said in a statement.     

Stating that the brand Tatas would turn Singur into another Jamshedpur, he said that as a citizen of West Bengal and a part of the Tata Group since 1994, "I feel industry is the future of the state."     

"So let us support the cause of Tatas and the industry to create the future of us. If this project goes elsewhere, the state will become a dark spot," Ganguly said.    

The Trinamool Congress which is spearheading the agitation in Singur over land acqusition for the project slammed the cricketer's endorsement of the car plant sarcastically asking "Does he know  where Singur is?"