BJP will emulate Gujarat growth model in Bengal, says party chief Dilip Ghosh
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The CPI(M)-led Left Front turned the State right into a hub of migrant staff who must go to States like Gujarat for work, he stated.
Upping the ante in opposition to rivals, BJP chief in Bengal, Dilip Ghosh, on Monday asserted that his party, if voted to energy in subsequent Assembly polls, will emulate Gujarat’s growth model to develop the State, and slammed the successive governments for not doing sufficient to create jobs.
Criticising the erstwhile Left Front dispensation for alleged politicisation of the schooling system, he stated Bengal, which as soon as produced the best scientists, docs and engineers, is now churning out migrant labourers.
The CPI(M)-led Left Front turned the State right into a hub of migrant staff who must go to States like Gujarat for work, Mr. Ghosh claimed throughout a ‘chai pe charcha’ session at Barasat in North 24 Parganas.
“Didimoni (Mamata Banerjee) often says that we (BJP) are trying to turn Bengal into Gujarat, I say that we will certainly do so and turn it into a developed State. Our men and women won’t have to go there for work. We will ensure employment opportunities are available here,” he stated.
Bengalis don’t make it to benefit lists of aggressive exams anymore, he acknowledged.
“The likes of Biman babu (Left Front chairman Biman Bose) and Buddha babu (former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya) have politicised the people of the State in a way that we (Bengal) now produce migrant workers who move to Gujarat for jobs, and not doctors, engineers or professors,” the BJP State president stated.
Reacting to Mr. Ghosh’s assertion, the Trinamool Congress, which has again and again skilled weapons on the BJP over the 2002 communal strife in the western State, claimed that Gujarat is understood for riots and encounters and never for growth.
“It’s not development that we associate Gujarat with. Over 2,000 people were killed and encounter deaths of people like Ishrat Jahan have occurred. If Bengal is turned into Gujarat or U.P., then here, too, people will get killed in encounters. We want our State to remain the way it is,” senior TMC chief and State minister Firhad Hakim stated.
Mr. Hakim, to drive dwelling his level, additionally stated that the Tata Nano manufacturing facility which was arrange in Gujarat has closed down, whereas the MSME sector in West Bengal was making good progress.
The Nano plant was moved to Sanand in Gujarat from Singur in West Bengal in 2008, following a protracted agitation led by Mamata Banerjee, alleging compelled acquisition of fertile land by the then Left Front authorities.
“Industries will come up in Bengal as the situation is favourable and the State has a stable government,” Mr. Hakim stated.
Echoing him, State panchayat Minister and senior Trinamool Congress chief Subrata Mukherjee contended that the BJP will by no means have the ability to realise its dream of successful Bengal polls, prone to be held in April-May subsequent yr.
“It is good to dream, but one should see to it that the dream does not turn into a nightmare,” Mr. Mukherjee stated.
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