MONDAY, 07 MAY 2012
22:44
PNS | BHAWANIPATNA
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BJD leaders of Kalahandi district on Monday broke their silence
over the issue of setting up of a rail wagon factory in the district, after
local Congress MP Bhakta Charan Das’ call to people to put on black badges for
six days to protest the State Government’s apathy towards establishment of the
factory at Narla in the district.
While Das has been accusing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
of his apathy towards identifying of land at Narla for the factory, the BJD
leaders have now begun blaming Das for allegedly misguiding the people on the
issue by holding public meetings in all blocks of the district. They said Das
has no other issue to take up after the Congress was defeated in the recent
panchayat elections in the district by the BJD.
Das has been demanding a railway wagon factory at Narla in
the wake of the commitment by Railway Minister Mukul Roy in Parliament that
wagon factories can be established both at Sitalapalli in Ganjam district and
Narla in Kalahandi.
District BJD president Balabhadra Majhi and Minister of
Labour & Employment Pushpendra Singh Deo at a Press conference here on
Monday said that the CM never thought of discrimination against Kalahandi.
They said the CM had demanded that provision be made in
the Railway Budget 2012-13 for establishment of a wagon factory on the
identified patch of Government land at Sitalapalli under Brahmapur tehsil of
Ganjam, which is located adjacent to Kolkata-Chennai NH-5.
And at the same time, the BJD leaders said, the Ministry
of Railways was requested by the State Government to consider establishment of
another wagon factory on the available Government land at Narla in Kalahandi.
On April 11, 2012, the State Government wrote a letter to the general manager
of the East Coast Railway to examine the matter for setting up of a factory at
Narla. Kalahandi Collector Dukhishyam Satpathy also submitted a letter of
availability of Government land for the factory at Narla, the BJD leaders said.
Balabhadra Majhi and Singh Deo refuted Das’ allegation
that the CM had personally written a letter to the Railway Minister that
instead of Kalahandi, the proposed wagon factory should be set up at
Sitalapalli. Let Das show a copy of such a letter written by the CM, they said.
Majhi said that when an all-party meeting was called by Das
at Bhawanipatna to discuss the issue, BJD leaders were not invited to it. The
BJD is fully cooperating in the efforts for setting up of a factory at Narla
and it is for Bhakta Das to clinch the issue in New Delhi as his party is
ruling at the Centre, they observed.
Sources said the district BJD leaders had met the CM on
the issue and the latter had directed them to hold a Press conference
immediately at Bhawanipatna to counter Das’ offensive.
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