‘Steel plant issue should be treated as a special case given public sentiments’
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Jana Sena Party (JSP) president Pawan Kalyan has appealed to the Centre to rethink the proposed strategic sale of its stake within the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and insisted that the issue should be dealt as a special case in respect to sentiments of the folks.
He mentioned the YSRCP should persuade the Centre to drop the proposal by leveraging its power within the Parliament. “Why the YSRC kept quiet when it knew that the South Korean steel giant Posco and the RINL have reportedly entered signed an MoU in 2019,” he requested whereas addressing the media, together with social gathering chief Nadendla Manohar in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Mr. Kalyan mentioned he had defined to the Home Minister Amit Shah how the VSP was special when in comparison with different industries and the intense penalties of promoting it off to non-public firms. He additionally knowledgeable Mr. Shah, Union Ministers of State V. Muraleedharan (exterior affairs) and G. Kishan Reddy and a few BJP MPs concerning the legislation and order scenario within the State, vis-a-vis the latest assaults on temples, the State’s precarious monetary place and the loss inflicted by Cyclone Nivar amongst a host of different points.
‘Shoestring budget’
“I have laid emphasis on the need to retain the VSP in the public sector in view of the massive financial implications of privatisation and the devastating blow it would be dealing to the thousands of employees and lakhs of workers dependent on the plant for their livelihood,” he mentioned.. Referring to the statements by some YSRCP leaders, the JSP chief questioned how the State would be capable of purchase the VSP when it (A.P. authorities) was fighting shoestring budgets yr after yr because of the hostile influence of bifurcation.
He mentioned that Mr. Shah wished to have detailed discussions on the technique which the BJP-JSP mix should undertake for the long run elections and that the problems pertaining to legislation and order would be accorded a precedence.
Asked to touch upon the political social gathering which is contemplated to be launched by Y.S. Sharmila, Mr. Pawan Kalyan mentioned everybody has the appropriate to kind a social gathering and that he would discuss it intimately solely after the image turns into clear.
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