Instead of bringing back black money stashed abroad, the Prime Minister is now busy with his "new obsession" Digital India and foreign trips, Yechury sarcastically told the 35th conference of CPI(M)'s student wing SFI at Mathurapur in South 24-Parganas district.
"But I can tell you that like black money, this digital India venture will too stumble upon hard ground," he said.
Turning to West Bengal, the veteran Marxist said that the state had slipped into a dangerous law and order situation and no new industry was coming to the state resulting in a shrinking employment market.
He also noted that worsening law and order was acting as the biggest stumbling block for the arrival of new industry.
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