Gujarat model is a myth, says Yechury HYDERABAD: Describing the so-called Gujarat model of development as pro-corporate and anti-people, CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury has described it as a creation of big corporate houses and being far from reality.
Addressing an election meeting in support of his party's candidates contesting in the Assembly constituencies here on Tuesday, Yechury said the Gujarat model was nothing but a propaganda by corporate bodies who, for their selfish gain, were promoting it.
'Gujarat model is taking farmers' land at cheap prices and giving it to industrialists at a concession,' he remarked.
Giving an example of Tata's Nano car project, which was shifted from West Bengal to Gujarat, he said that the Gujarat government had given a subsidy of Rs 60,000 on every Nano car but the problems faced by the common man remained.
He described the Gujarat model of development as one which 'makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.' He said that Modi was making tall claims about development in Gujarat but the ground reality was different.
'Gujarat ranks 22nd in the country in human development and health indices. There are several other such examples to show that all the claims being made about Gujarat's development are false and misleading,' Yechury said.
'In Gujarat there are separate Hindu and Muslim colonies and if it is the development model then the country does not need such model.'
The poll surveys predicting the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance coming to power at the Centre cannot be believed as surveys in 2004 had claimed that the National Democratic Alliance would get more than 350 seats but it lost in the elections.
News Posted: 23 April, 2014
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