Bandh should be last resort: Mamata on opposition shutdown
Monday - September 10, 2018 10:02 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Bandh should be last resort: Mamata on opposition shutdown
Kolkata Sep 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reiterated her party s support to the issues raised by the Congress against the Narendra Modi government but said calling a shutdown should be the last resort as it leads to wastage of money and man-days.
The Congress and its allies had called a shutdown to protest against rising prices of petroleum products and a depreciating rupee while the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist)-led Left Front organised a nationwide agitation from 6 a.m to 6 p.m on the same issue.
Claiming that "an economic disaster and mismanagement" is going on in the country under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government Banerjee said she had informed the Congress leadership in Delhi that her government would not allow any shutdown in Bengal.
"We have seen that a single day shutdown leads to wastage of 80 lakh man-days in Bengal. Bengal is trying to turn around. So we are against all kinds of shutdown and strike. We morally oppose bandh no matter who calls it " Banerjee said at the state secretariat Nabanna here.
"Congress leader Ahmed Patel called me on Friday evening. I told him that we support the issues but we will not hold any shutdown. That s why we held protest demonstration today (Monday).
"I do not think calling shutdown is the right solution. A lot of money is wasted during the strike. These are people s money. I personally think that bandh should be the last resort " she said.
--IANS mgr/nir
The Congress and its allies had called a shutdown to protest against rising prices of petroleum products and a depreciating rupee while the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist)-led Left Front organised a nationwide agitation from 6 a.m to 6 p.m on the same issue.
Claiming that "an economic disaster and mismanagement" is going on in the country under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government Banerjee said she had informed the Congress leadership in Delhi that her government would not allow any shutdown in Bengal.
"We have seen that a single day shutdown leads to wastage of 80 lakh man-days in Bengal. Bengal is trying to turn around. So we are against all kinds of shutdown and strike. We morally oppose bandh no matter who calls it " Banerjee said at the state secretariat Nabanna here.
"Congress leader Ahmed Patel called me on Friday evening. I told him that we support the issues but we will not hold any shutdown. That s why we held protest demonstration today (Monday).
"I do not think calling shutdown is the right solution. A lot of money is wasted during the strike. These are people s money. I personally think that bandh should be the last resort " she said.
--IANS mgr/nir
