A BLOW-BY-BLOW ACCOUNT
2006
18 May: Tata Motors announces Nano plant in Singur
13 July: 1,250 farmers throng district magistrate’s office to record unwillingness to part with land
30 November: Section 144 clamped across Singur, Mamata stopped at Dankuni on way to Singur, returns Kolkata, and enters assembly. Party MLAs ransack assembly 1 December: Govt starts taking possession of land
2007
March: Tatas start construction of the plant
2008
15 February: Tata Motors announce first Nano to be rolled out of the plant by October
May: Trinamool Congress tastes victory in Singur in the panchayat elections
24 August: Mamata starts 16-days’ dharna in front of Nano site 3 October: Ratan Tata announces pull out of the Nano project
2011
14 June: Bengal govt passes Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill
28 September: A single bench of Calcutta high court holds the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act as ‘constitutional and valid’
31 August, 2016: Supreme Court division bench says the land acquisition of 2006 is unconstitutional, orders govt to return land to farmers within 12 hours