The government and opposition of West Bengal are set to hold an emergency meeting in a last-ditch attempt to rescue a plan to make the state the manufacturing hub for the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano.

Gopal Krishna Gandhi, West Bengal’s governor, said he would chair a meeting between the state’s communist rulers and its main opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, which claims farmers were forcibly evicted to make way for the Nano’s factory in Singur, near Calcutta.