BJP mocks Rahul Gandhi over Amethi Food Park; says he was more interested in protecting interests of biz houses
Updated: May 12, 2015 03:48:14pm
New Delhi, May 12 (KNN) Training guns towards Rahul Gandhi over the food park issue in his home turf Amethi, the BJP leaders said the project was cancelled after the promoter company failed to comply with requisite conditions for approval.
Amid ruckus in the Parliament, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur said the food park's promoter company had expressed its inability to pursue the project in the absence of natural gas, whose allocation was denied by the previous government in December 2012.
Kaur said that in view of inordinate delay by the promoter company in meeting the "pre-conditions for final approval, in-principle approval accorded to the project by the Ministry was cancelled".
The decision of the cancellation was conveyed to the promoter company on July 11, 2014, she added.
Further, mocking at Rahul Gandhi, Kaur said that the project was cancelled on July 11, 2014.... Were you sleeping for 10 months? It is you who wants to resort to politics of revenge.
Meanwhile, BJP Leader Smriti Irani, taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said he was more interested in protecting the interests of a business house, the promoter of the food park project, and was ignoring the plight of farmers.
“When Rahul Gandhi spoke for the first time in Amethi, he was talking for a business house. He did not speak for the farmers of Amethi. If you look at the documents of district officials, you will understand that from 2010 to 2014, the land was not provided by Congress. Whatever help had to be given for gas was not given for long,” she said to a question on the food park. (KNN Bureau)
Amid ruckus in the Parliament, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur said the food park's promoter company had expressed its inability to pursue the project in the absence of natural gas, whose allocation was denied by the previous government in December 2012.
Kaur said that in view of inordinate delay by the promoter company in meeting the "pre-conditions for final approval, in-principle approval accorded to the project by the Ministry was cancelled".
The decision of the cancellation was conveyed to the promoter company on July 11, 2014, she added.
Further, mocking at Rahul Gandhi, Kaur said that the project was cancelled on July 11, 2014.... Were you sleeping for 10 months? It is you who wants to resort to politics of revenge.
Meanwhile, BJP Leader Smriti Irani, taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said he was more interested in protecting the interests of a business house, the promoter of the food park project, and was ignoring the plight of farmers.
“When Rahul Gandhi spoke for the first time in Amethi, he was talking for a business house. He did not speak for the farmers of Amethi. If you look at the documents of district officials, you will understand that from 2010 to 2014, the land was not provided by Congress. Whatever help had to be given for gas was not given for long,” she said to a question on the food park. (KNN Bureau)
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