Hooghly: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi once again raised the pitch for his party and said that development will not speed up in West Bengal until Congress comes to power. Rahul, who has been taking on the Narendra Modi government's policies in his nationwide padyatra, met jute mill workers in Hooghly.
"Like I raised the voice of farmers in the Parliament, I will raise the issue of Jute workers too. Farmers and industry need to work together so that both can benefit. First Left parties applied brakes,then TMC did same. As long as INC doesn't come in West Bengal ,development won't speed up," Rahul said.
The Congress, which had been voted out of power way back in 1977, has steadily lost ground first to the Left Front and then to Trinamool Congress.
It received a drubbing in the recent civic elections in the state coming a poor fourth in vote share, behind Trinamool Congress, Left Front, and the BJP.
During his interaction with jute mill workers, Rahul was apprised of their problems related to closure of mills, wages, pension, bonus and fringe benefits, state INTUC president Ramen Pandey said.
Briefing the media about Rahul's talks with the workers, Pandey said, "We also urged him to take up the issue of making jute packaging of food grains, sugar and other items compulsory in Parliament so as to save the industry."
The INTUC also gave a memorandum to Rahul on labour issues in tea gardens in North Bengal and the crisis faced by workers and other local businesses owing to the closure of the Ambassador factory at Hindustan Motors factory at Hindmotor here.
(With additional information from PTI)
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