Kannur, Kerala: The Left Front Government in West Bengal must set up industries in the state without harming farmers’ interests, the CPI said on Tuesday.
"The CPI is not against industrialisation. But the process should not be at the cost of farmers and the working class by taking away fertile land for setting up new units and all such decisions need to be made in consultation with the Left front constituents," party General Secretary A B Bardhan said. The CPI is a junior partner in the CPI-M-led West Bengal government.
"Any government in the country must ensure that fertile land was displaced as little as possible in the process of setting up of new industrial units," PTI quoted Bardhan as saying at the a ceremony to mark CPI's 80th formation day.
Bardhan said there were differences between the CPI and the CPI-M but his party wanted the Left governments in West Bengal and Kerala to end unemployment and problems faced by farmers and tribals.
Bardhan was speaking at Parapram, where the Communist Party in Kerala was formed in 1939.
The function was also a part of the concluding ceremony of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of CPI's first state secretary P Krishna Pillai.
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