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Industry leaders back Buddhadeb

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Many feel disruptions are mainly resistance to changes
All sections urged to act responsibly for State’s progress

Kolkata: A day after the Army was called in to quell mob violence in the city, industry leaders renewed their support to the State leadership, expressing confidence in the economic future of West Bengal. “We will back Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,” they said.

Speaking to The Hindu, captains of industry and senior office-bearers of the chambers of commerce said that the State government had shown resolve to tackle matters efficiently and West Bengal’s investment climate would not be impacted by these sporadic incidents. However, alongside they also appealed to every section of society to act responsibly so that the State’s progress was not blocked. Many felt that these disruptions were basically resistance to the changes that the West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was trying to usher into the State. “Human beings mostly want status quo. And these are basically resistance to change,” they said.

They said that industry groups which had an inherent faith in the leadership would dig their heels in, but fence-sitters who were still in the stage of weighing their options on parking their investments, may just start looking up other States.

Game plan

Many also wondered whether there was a game plan behind the string of incidents aimed mainly at derailing the State’s industrialisation drive.

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