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Many chief ministers want FDI in multi-brand
retail: Sharma
Wednesday June 27, 2012 10:35:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Many chief ministers, including
non-Congress ones, support the proposal to allow foreign direct
investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, Commerce and Industry
Minister Anand Sharma said Wednesday.
"Now you have a fairly good number of chief ministers who have
come out in support...We have continued a dialogue in a democratic
spirit, a very open dialogue with the states," Sharma told
reporters here after Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent met him.
Sharma said he had written letters to chief ministers of states
ruled by non-Congress parties such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and
Odisha seeking their support for allowing overseas investment in
multi-brand retail.
The minister said in Brussels Tuesday that he would also write to
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar seeking his support on the
issue.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government early this year
suspended the implementation of the decision to allow FDI in
multi-brand retail following protests from principal opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party and some of the key allies of the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA), notably the Trinamool Congress.
Sharma hoped the decision would be implemented soon or later.
"Things will move... a decision has been taken. It was paused only
for a larger consensus. Government has been very sincere. What we
said was that we will have more consultation. To have a greater
consensus. And we have been doing that since then," he said.
He said the government was doing consultations with various
stakeholders to reach a broad consensus on the issue.
"The ministry of food and consumer affairs had a stakeholders'
consultation. I at my level have been doing consultation. The
secretary DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion ) is
talking to chief secretaries and other officials of the state, so
there is an ongoing dialogue as there should be a discourse in the
democracy.
"And I am very positive and much reassured by understanding that
has come from large of states and the highest level of the
leadership," the minister added.
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