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Buddhadeb caution on modernising markets

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that while it was essential to bring in big corporate houses to modernise the market mechanism, it was as important to go slowly and cautiously.

Addressing the 153rd annual general meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he said: “Small vegetable marketers may lose jobs if big retail comes, and we need to solve this problem.” He was trying to formulate “a compromise formula to find a modern market mechanism without sacrificing employment,” but declined to elaborate.

“Nandigram situation changing”

Criticising the Opposition for misleading the people, he said they did not understand anything. “At Nandigram, before we could convince the people, the Opposition successfully misled them and I faced a horrible situation, but now things are changing,” he said, two days after his visit to the troubled area.

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