Minister seeks meeting with Odisha CM to discuss investment proposals

BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum and talent building minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday alleged non-cooperation through the Naveen Patnaik govt in facilitating investments in the state, a declare dismissed through the ruling BJD.

In a letter addressed to Naveen on Monday and released to the media a day later, Dharmendra wrote that a few days back he had sought a gathering with chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi to discuss the conceivable participation of traders from Gulf international locations at the Make-in-Odisha conclave, an traders’ meet scheduled right here in November.

“I am pained to apprise you that the chief secretary sought after your permission for the assembly, but he may just not get it. The chief secretary has expressed his helplessness to me,” Dharmendra wrote.

The Union minister mentioned he had personally talked to prospective traders throughout his discuss with to UAE (from May 12 to 15). They had shown keen pastime to put money into food processing industries in Odisha.

The Union minister, who had written to Naveen on May 31 searching for the state’s cooperation in attracting investments from GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) international locations, pointed out that he had written a number of occasions to Naveen previously. But there has been no response, he added.

In the most recent letter, written in Odia, Dharmendra discussed how at the slightest provocation Naveen’s associates would time period him a ‘postman’, ‘Bihari’ and different derogatory phrases. “My honest request to you is that don’t smash the probable alternatives for long run generations of Odisha on account of your hatred in opposition to me,” Dharmendra wrote to Naveen.


In the letter he has also sought Naveen’s time at the latter’s place of business so that he may just give an explanation for the efforts he had made to facilitate participation of traders from GCC international locations at the Make in Odisha conclave. “While getting carried away through long years of mandate, don’t demean small contributions of little squirrels like me,” he wrote.


The chief secretary didn't respond to phone calls and text messages but BJD spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Pratap Keshari Deb refuted Dharmendra’s allegations of non-cooperation. “The chief secretary doesn’t want the chief minister’s permission to satisfy any Union minister,” Pratap mentioned.


On funding to the food processing business, the BJD chief mentioned Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh should be concerned in the proposals because it concerns his ministry.


As a long way because the derogatory remarks are involved, Pratap mentioned the minister himself often uses phrases like torpid and incompetent to explain the chief minister.
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