Kawasoti, April 11: UCPN (Maoist) leader and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has claimed the said future new force would be a model for economic development.He said this while speaking to journalists after observing the Chaudhary Group-run industries in Nawalparasi today.
“When a single business family can do so much, imagine how much can be done when the state itself is involved,” he said, referring to the prospects of industrial development, referring to the industries operated by the Chaudhary Group in this area. The coming revolution is going to be the revolution of economic development itself, he asserted.
Stating that the economic and political revolutions are complementary to each other, former Prime Minister Bhattarai stressed the need of devoting some of the coming years to bringing an economic revolution.
My focus is that the parties should make the economic agenda their primary concern, the UCPN (Maoist) leader said, adding that he was impressed with the technology adopted by the Group which he said led to the rapid growth of industries run by it.
He said it was unfortunate to operate agro-based industries on imported raw materials when the agricultural goods can be produced within the country, calling for the state to take policy measures ensuring the production of such raw materials. He suggested that the government should give subsidies for this.
Former Prime Minister Bhattarai stressed that the state should devise policy for increasing employment through the appropriate coordination of the capital, labour and market.
He also blamed the political instability for the sluggish economic and industrial development in the country. “The coming age is that of economic revolution alone, the state should not itself open and operate factories but promote the private sector for that,” he opined.
Chairman of the Chaudhary Group, Binod Chaudhary, who was with Dr Bhattarai during the press meet, said that politics should be based on the cost-benefit analysis.
Pointing out that 28 bills related to economic issues were pending in Parliament, Chaudhary, who figures in the Forbes’ list of billionaires, said the present problem is the lack of a ‘real’ partnership between the political side and the economic side.
He termed Dr Bhattarai’s economic agenda encouraging which, according to him, would help create the environment for economic revolution in the country.
Former Prime Minister Bhattarai spent nearly two hours observing the Chaudhary Group’s industrial production zone. On the occasion, he acquired information on the production of Wai Wai instant noodles, potato chips and juice, among other food products. He praised the works carried out by the Group in collaboration with the local community. RSS
