Kolkata: Today, Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, compensates 800 farmers after the Supreme Court cancelled the Singur land acquisition.

"This government has decided to distribute the cheques to unwilling farmers and the Chief Minister herself would be going there to do so. That is one part of this story. But the other part of the story is what would be the fate of the land," said, Pradip Bhattacharya, former state Congress president.

He added, "It is fine that now they are distributing the cheques. Why they delayed this for six months? Who suffered because of all this? It's the Bengal people. Therefore, I do not understand for how long this drama would continue".

On August 31, the deal through which the former Left government in West Bengal acquired land in Singur in 2006 was cancelled by the Supreme Court, thereby handing Tata Motors a big setback.