‘TMc has failed to woo industry’
The Statesman
5 May 2014
Former bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee alleged at a rally in Tamluk
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Nimtouri (Tamluk), 4 May
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today accused the Mamata Banerjee government of impairing development in the state, saying it has failed to woo new industries. He also minced no words to criticise the Trinamul regime on the rising crime graph against women.
“The government has taken the state backward in both industry and agriculture. It has not taken a single step towards industrialisation compared to what was done by us. No new industry has come up under the new regime,” said the CPI-M politburo leader, addressing an election campaign rally at Nimtouri.
He claimed that industries like JSW steel, Wipro, Infosys and Cognizant had set foot in the state during the Left Front rule, but now “investors are realising that this government will not do anything to bring new industry”.
In Haldia, no industry has come up after the change of power in the state, but we had done much for the development of the Haldia industries. The steel plant in Salboni is moving out of the state. Wipro and Infosys have said that they won’t come, Mr Bhattacharjee said calling upon voters to ensure that a government that takes up alternative policies is formed in Delhi.
He said that if the Left becomes more powerful, it can stop passage of unjust laws.
“The Congress had already admitted defeat. They had accomplished next to nothing in their 10-year rule. Where there used to be about eight to ten super rich businessmen in India, the number has now crossed a hundred. On the flipside, poverty, hunger, and unemployment are eating into the country. The Prime Minister has failed to control prices. He has voluntarily surrendered control over the cost of petrol and diesel. People gave the Congress time, and it has failed them,” he said.
Mr Bhattacherjee said “our work does not end with the defeat of the Congress, because if one road is bad, the other one next to it is the terrible force of the BJP, which plans to divide the country along communal lines. Our plan is to send away the Congress and stop the BJP.”
Describing BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as “dangerous”, Mr Bhattacharjee said the power would go in the hands of industrialists if he took charge of the top post.
He said an alternative government without the Congress and the BJP could be formed at the Centre. “The government of an alternative front without the Congress and the BJP could be formed at the Centre. Because, the total number of votes garnered by the opposition parties is always more than the combined votes of Congress and BJP,” he said.
Mr Bhattacharjee referred to the terrible experience of the people in the Saradha scam, saying that a betrayal of such huge proportions would not be tolerated. He reminded people of how the farce of the School Service Commission examinations had insulted the youth of the state. Public funds were being wasted on large government “utsavs” (festivals).
Biswabrata Goswami
biswabrata@thestatesman.net
Nimtouri (Tamluk), 4 May
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today accused the Mamata Banerjee government of impairing development in the state, saying it has failed to woo new industries. He also minced no words to criticise the Trinamul regime on the rising crime graph against women.
“The government has taken the state backward in both industry and agriculture. It has not taken a single step towards industrialisation compared to what was done by us. No new industry has come up under the new regime,” said the CPI-M politburo leader, addressing an election campaign rally at Nimtouri.
He claimed that industries like JSW steel, Wipro, Infosys and Cognizant had set foot in the state during the Left Front rule, but now “investors are realising that this government will not do anything to bring new industry”.
In Haldia, no industry has come up after the change of power in the state, but we had done much for the development of the Haldia industries. The steel plant in Salboni is moving out of the state. Wipro and Infosys have said that they won’t come, Mr Bhattacharjee said calling upon voters to ensure that a government that takes up alternative policies is formed in Delhi.
He said that if the Left becomes more powerful, it can stop passage of unjust laws.
“The Congress had already admitted defeat. They had accomplished next to nothing in their 10-year rule. Where there used to be about eight to ten super rich businessmen in India, the number has now crossed a hundred. On the flipside, poverty, hunger, and unemployment are eating into the country. The Prime Minister has failed to control prices. He has voluntarily surrendered control over the cost of petrol and diesel. People gave the Congress time, and it has failed them,” he said.
Mr Bhattacherjee said “our work does not end with the defeat of the Congress, because if one road is bad, the other one next to it is the terrible force of the BJP, which plans to divide the country along communal lines. Our plan is to send away the Congress and stop the BJP.”
Describing BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as “dangerous”, Mr Bhattacharjee said the power would go in the hands of industrialists if he took charge of the top post.
He said an alternative government without the Congress and the BJP could be formed at the Centre. “The government of an alternative front without the Congress and the BJP could be formed at the Centre. Because, the total number of votes garnered by the opposition parties is always more than the combined votes of Congress and BJP,” he said.
Mr Bhattacharjee referred to the terrible experience of the people in the Saradha scam, saying that a betrayal of such huge proportions would not be tolerated. He reminded people of how the farce of the School Service Commission examinations had insulted the youth of the state. Public funds were being wasted on large government “utsavs” (festivals).
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