Yechury slams PM's 'new obsession' Digital India,foreign trips

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Oct 02 2015 | 7:42 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveniently forgotten his pre-Lok Sabha election pledge of mopping up black money, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said.
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.
"The Chief Minister has made several foreign trips expressly to attract industry and investment, but they have ended in a miserable failure," Yechury said.
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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First Published: Oct 02 2015 | 7:42 PM IST

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