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Problems Tata’s dream of making cheapest car of the world has always remained in controversies ever since its conversion into reality. First it took more than expected time to design and make the model of the car. Second it costs more than the promised rate. But real problems started for the manufacturer when it took land on lease from the West Bengal government to establish the manufacturing unit for the production of the cheapest car(Nano) of the world.

Agitations State government had acquired almost 1000 acres of the land from the farmers of Singur. But since then farmers were agitating against the state government. They were demanding their land to be given back to them. State saw a lot of violence because of this issue. But situation deteriorated when some leaders politicized the issue to gain popularity in the Left ruled state. They exploited the public sentiments. All it resulted in delay of the production of Nano.

Politics Situation deteriorated more when Trinamool Congress leader Mamta Benerjee stepped into the crisis. She has been spearheading the farmers’ agitations against the state government for months. It has aggravated the law and order situation in the state and delay in the project. State government’s all efforts to defuse the tension have failed. Mamta is demanding that 400 acres of land should be given back to the farmers. She has planned to lay siege of the car plant in Singur on 24 August. Tata requires the land to establish ancillary units at the same place to keep the manufacturing costs low.

Ratan Tata But on the other hand Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Motors has threatened to pull out the Nano project from Singur if violent protests continued. He said “We don’t want to come where we are unwanted.” Violent protests guided by political oppositions has resulted in cost overruns and delay in the production of the car. Tata Chairman had met state Industry Minister Nirupam Sen on Thursday in Kolkata and was worried about the protest.

Reasons There are various reasons that are the reason of crisis. WB is being ruled by Communist parties of Indian for more that 25 years. Opposition parties want to exploit the issue to break political monopoly of left in the state. Tata’s Nano project has worried the other car manufacturer companies in India.  So   involvement of the corporate world in the violence activities can not be denied.

Result Sri Lanka won the fifth and the last match of the 5 one-day match series by a huge margin of 112 runs. Its bowlers did a great job and saved the side from a humiliating series loss. Though they had already lost the series to Indians by 3-1 they were playing for the pride. Some Lankan batsmen and bowlers performed well and scored a consolation victory over the Indians.

Lanka Earlier, Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and elected to bat. Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasurya once again disappointed his captain and edged a ball from Zaheer to the third man. He scored only one run.Malinda Warnapura(30) and Mahela Udawatte(43) added 77 runs for the second wicket. When everything was going Lanka’s way comeback man Irfan Pathan struck twice and sent both the established batmen back. Kumar Sangakkara’s poor form continued even in this match as he edged a RP Singh’s wide ball to Gautam Gambhir at slips. He had made only one run. Pragyan Ojha took two Lankan wickets. He sent back Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene(12) when he was caught by Yuvraj Singh at Short cover. His second victim was hamara Kapugedera who could score only 26 runs. But partnership between lower order batsmen Thilan Thushara(54) and Jehan Mubarak(47) set the stage for Lankans .Their 94 run partnership brought the Lankan back into match as the had put a fightable score on the board.

India In response to the victory target of 228 runs Indian operners too could not give a good start to their side. Gambhir edged Kulasekara’s outside going delivery and was caught by wicketkeeper. In his next over Kulasekara took wickets of Virat Kohli when he had made 31 runs. His next victim was Suresh Raina. He departed for 10 runs. Rest of the Indian batsmen could not reach even the double figure. When India was comfortably placed at 70 for 3 from 15 overs rain interrupted the match. Because of rains India was given a revised victory target of 216 from 44 overs.When play resumed Kulasekara struck once again and sent Rohit Sharma back just for 3 runs. Non of the other batsmen could stay for a long and all the Indian team got out for 103 from 26.3 overs. Mendis took three wickets while Dilhara Fernando took two. Dhoni was adjudged man of the series.