Modi: No dearth of investors for Bengal

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 22

Lamenting the decline in West Bengal’s industry sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said this would change if the BJP was elected to power in the state.

Addressing a public meeting at a ground adjacent to Chuchura’s Dunlop Factory — once a famous manufacturer of tyres but now closed — Modi said there was no dearth of people interested in investing in Bengal.

Without naming the TMC government in the state headed by Mamata Banerjee, Modi alleged that the incumbent government in the state was responsible for creating an atmosphere that discouraged investors from coming to WB.

“The cut money culture, syndicate raj prevailing in the state has hastened the state’s industrial decline,” Modi said. He said immediately after coming to power, the BJP government would initiate systematic steps toward regeneration of the state’s industrial sector.

The PM said the jute industry in Hoogly district, once a thriving sector, was now suffering under government neglect. Noting that Hoogly is famous for potato and paddy, Modi said growers would benefit immensely if food processing units came up in the area. The PM inaugurated a metro project (4.1 km Noapara to Dakhineswar) and four railway projects.