"I hope there's a bad 'M' and a good 'M'," Ratan Tata [ Images ] quipped shortly after Gujarat became a new home for his Nano [ Images ] small car project.

The remarks of Tata apparently alluding to the opposition by Mamata Banerjee [ Images ] to the Nano project in Singur in West Bengal [ Images ] and the red carpet rolled out to the business group by Chief Minister Narendra Modi [ Images ] came at a press conference in the presence of the BJP stalwart.

"I hope that there is a bad 'M' and a good 'M'. We need that transition," was the industrialist's quickfire response with Modi by his side to a question in a veiled reference to the approach of Mamata and Modi respectively to the project drawing peals of laughter.

Modi was asked by a newsman how his "journey of homecoming was from Mamata to Modi, from a nightmare to homecoming".

It was for the second time since Tata announced the pullout from West Bengal last Friday that he resorted to one-liners to convey a message to the politicians who played out the Nano drama.

"I think Mamata Banerjee has pulled the trigger", Tata said last Friday.

This was how a despondent Ratan Tata, who once said he will not pull out of Singur even at gun point, had summed up his group's "painful" decision to exit the project.