The State BJP on Sunday opined that without improving law and order situation in State, the JMM/Congress government’s claim of bringing industries in State will be ‘hollow’ and will not yield desired results .
The BJP president Deepak Prakash, taking a jibe on Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s recent visit to Delhi to bring investors, said the Government needs to strengthen the law and order situation first. Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday promised a red-carpet welcome to investors coming to Jharkhand even as the state industries department signed two deals during the meeting with potential investors in New Delhi.
The BJP president said that BJP always favours fast industrial development and with this aim a separate state of Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000. He said, “Jharkhand is a state full of opportunities. The State is also rich in natural resources and culture.” Highlighting the work carried out by previous Raghubar Das government, Prakash said, “The BJP government had laid the foundation of strong development and industrialization in Jharkhand. The BJP government laid the foundation as it had clean policy and intention.” Targeting the state government, he said that the present government has neither clear intention nor policy in brining investors. He said, “The infrastructure project in state is very poor. Besides, government’s lack of preparation in handling Left Wing Extremism in state is another drawback.”
Prakash the Rajya Sabha member claimed that state has been witnessing regular incidents of massacre, the safety of women especially tribal women is at stake and adding woes is red tapism in state.
He targeted government for loot of rich mineral resources as extortion is openly demanded from industrialist. Prakash said, “In the name of Pathalgadi law and order situation is declining every day as Naxals have dared government with even putting up posters outside Raj Bhawan premises.”
The BJP president claimed that if the government is serious in bringing industrialists the first thing the government should do is to improve law and order situation in the state.
Sources said that during the maiden meeting of Soren after he assumed charge in 2019, the chief minister also unveiled the draft of the Jharkhand Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy 2021, which aims to create a path for the state's economic revival after the Covid-19 lockdown.
Soren assured full cooperation from his government to the investors will to come to Jharkhand, where land availability has always been a contentious issue.