The West Bengal government has decided to postpone its ongoing industrialisation drive for three months to take up an extensive campaign to convince people that it would not take place at the cost of agriculture, former Chief Minister Jyoti Basu said on Friday.
"The industrialisation drive has been postponed for three months. During this time, our party activists and those of our mass organisations will go to the people and convince them that industrialisation would not take place at the cost of agriculture," the veteran Marxist leader told reporters in Kolkata.
Virtually censuring the Buddhadev Bhattacharya government on the matter, the veteran Marxist leader said, "There has been a misunderstanding (on the issue). This could have been avoided if we had convinced the people. The