PM to visit Bengal again Feb. 7; TMC irked at MP invite
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his second visit to poll-bound West Bengal within a span of two weeks, will inaugurate three big ticket central industrial projects totalling `4,552 crores at Haldia in East Midnapore next week in what appears to be a curtain raiser of his campaign to bringhten the BJP’s prospect in the ensuing Assembly election. What has however irked the ruling Trinamul Congress, is union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan's invitation to its MP of Tamluk Dibyendu Adhikari to Mr Modi's event on February 7.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his second visit to poll-bound West Bengal within a span of two weeks, will inaugurate three big ticket central industrial projects totalling `4,552 crore at Haldia in East Midnapore next week in what appears to be a curtain raiser of his campaign to bringhten the BJP’s prospect in the ensuing Assembly election.
What has, however, irked the ruling Trinamul Congress, is Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s invitation to its MP of Tamluk Dibyendu Adhikari to Modi’s event on February 7.
While Haldia is located in Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency, senior TMC leaders have started reading a hidden and clear message in the invitation to the young MP who has been maintaining distance from the party since his elder brother Shubhendu Adhikari and younger brother Soumendu Adhikari have already switched from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party to the BJP and their father and three-time MP Sisir Adhikari has been isolated in the party.
All eyes will be on Dibyendu’s attendance at the event where Modi will flag off Dobhi-Durgapur Pipeline Project, a 347-km long section of Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Pipeline constructed by GAIL at an estimated cost of `2,433 crore.
It will revive HURL Sindri in Jharkhand, supply gas to Matix Fertiliser Plant at Durgapur as anchor customers, in addition to supplying gas to industrial, commercial and automobile sectors and city gas distribution across all major towns in these states, including cities of Hazaribagh, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Purulia, Asansol and Durgapur.
The Prime Minister will also launch LPG Import Terminal, built by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited at an investment of `1,100 crore.
It will meet the LPG requirement in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, parts of Uttar Pradesh and North Eastern states.
Modi will lay the foundation stone of the second Catalytic Dewaxing Unit, at the Haldia Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation, built at `1,019 crore to help augment the lubricant production.