Blaming Union Government for its bias towards UP on power front Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said his government was committed to attracting investments for industrial development of the state and for that needs co-operation from the Centre.
“SP government is working hard to bring investment in the state. The previous Samajwadi Party Government had initiated steps by setting up several sugar mills particularly in the eastern UP. We are working at the ambitious Maitreya project,” he said intervening during Question Hour in the state assembly here on Thursday.
“lucknow is going ahead in setting up of the 4G telecom services which will provide employment to hundreds of youth. We are doing much but there is a need for better packaging so that we can showcase Uttar Pradesh to investors,” he said. He, however, asked the BJP members to impress upon their Central government to give the state its power quota and good quality coal for power houses and remove all constraints in setting up new power plants. BJP state president and member laxmikant Bajpai assured the Chief Minister that they will take up the matter with the Centre and asked him to give all the correspondence between the CM and the PMO to the party leader.
Earlier, Industry Minister Rammurti Verma said during the recently held Investors Meet at New Delhi on June 12 where MoUs with 22 companies were signed for an investment to the tune of
over Rs 42,000 crore. The House also witnessed some noisy scenes when Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohd Azam Khan said that the SP government has not ditched the people like the present NDA government which came to power by selling dreams of achche din and now asking the people to wait for five years. This statement was opposed by the BJP members and even their leader Satish Mahana alleged that the law and order situation is bad while the power crisis was acute but the government was only blaming the Centre. Khan also alleged that BJP was trying to destabilise the state government by raking up false propaganda of law and order.