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Raj Thackeray backs FDI in retail, demands
jobs only for locals
Tuesday September 18, 2012 07:52:15 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Expressing
full support to FDI in retail, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief
Raj Thackeray Tuesday demanded that local people must be given
employment by MNCs opening shop here.
"We are fully with the policy (FDI in retail), as it will create
employment opportunities for the people. But, the MNCs must give
jobs to locals," Thackeray told media persons here.
He warned that the MNS would not permit the MNCs and retail giants
to give jobs to migrants under any circumstances "otherwise, they
will have to bear the consequences".
The MNS chief also attacked the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
for calling a nationwide shutdown Thursday on grounds that it
clashed with the 10-day Ganeshotsav festival starting all over
Maharashtra the same day.
"When it was well known that the one and half day Ganpati
immersion celebrations are due Thursday, what was the need to call
for the nationwide shutdown that day," Thackeray demanded.
The MNS and Shiv Sena - the latter a constituent of the NDA - have
excused themselves from joining the shutdown as it will hit the
Ganeshotsav celebrations in the state.
However, both parties have strongly opposed the recent hike in
prices of diesel and cooking gas which, they said, will hit the
common man hard.
Home Minister R.R. Patil last night appealed to the NDA
constituents in the state not to enforce shutdown in the state in
view of the state's biggest festival starting Thursday.
"They can submit memorandum of their demands to district
collectorates or other government offices and express their
opposition in a democratic manner instead of enforcing shutdown,"
he said.
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