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Modi misleading people on Paradip project: Congress
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SME Times News Bureau | 09 Feb, 2016
The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of
misleading the nation and making “hollow and lame allegations” regarding
the delay in the commencement of the Paradip oil refinery project in
Odisha.
Modi resorted to myopic politicking while inaugurating
the Paradip project on Sunday, said Congress leader and former union
minister Srikant Jena in a statement here.
"Had the prime
minister been honest and sincere, he would have appreciated the
Congress-led UPA government in the development of Paradip and Odisha
instead of making hollow and lame allegations about the project having
been delayed. We call upon him to introspect and do necessary course
correction," Jena added. “Narendra Modi’s rhetoric is founded on
blame game and criticising the previous governments instead of
providing leadership to the nation. The net consequence is that repeated
public utterances of the prime minister are based on deliberate
ignorance and selective amnesia towards facts,” the Congress leader
said.
He said the project was conceptualised in 1992 by the then
prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao with a capacity of six million tonnes,
later increased to nine million tonnes by the United Front government
headed by H.D. Deve Gowda.
He said the foundation stone was laid by the then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2000.
The
Congress leader said the project was called off due to “delay and
non-cooperation by the Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition
government in Odisha which refused to provide sales tax concession”.
Jena
said the United Progressive Alliance government led by Manmohan Singh
revisited the project and “persuaded the then BJD government in Odisha
to sign a memorandum of understanding”.
He said the then UPA
government and the Indian Oil Corporation Limited announced a fresh
project with a capacity of 15 million tonnes refining capacity along
with other downstream projects.
Jena said the then UPA government approved expenditure of Rs.35,000 crore in 2009 and its completion in 2012-13.
“What
is remarkable is that despite being a green field project in remote
area, 95 percent of the work was completed by 2014 during UPA
government's term,” the Congress leader said in the release.
Modi
had on Sunday dedicated to the nation a 15-million tonnes per annum
refinery and expressed regrets over the delay in execution of different
projects.
He took a dig at the Congress and said “nowadays
whenever I go to inaugurate any project, the friends in Congress party
say it was started during our time".
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