Need vibrancy like Gujarat in WB: Irani

Surat: With an eye on the assembly election in West Bengal, union textile minister Smriti Irani said that Gujarat was always ready to share knowledge on textile industry with West Bengal. She said that industrial vibrancy like Gujarat was needed in West Bengal. Irani, who was in the city to inaugurate Gujarat’s first physical exhibition Surat International Textile Expo (SITEX) along with minister of state for women and child development, Debasree Chaudhuri on Saturday, said, “Whenever Bengal will call, Gujarat will come. It is the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that people from one state should go to others to gain and share knowledge.”

Irani’s comments are in line with the continuing allegation by BJP leaders that the ruling Trinamool Congress government failed to set up any big industry in West Bengal.

Earlier, Chaudhuri had said, “I want to see Gujarat’s industrial vibrancy in West Bengal. This way we can bring an industrial revolution as Gujarat has achieved.”

Irani added, “I congratulate Debasreeji for her will to ignite a ray of development by bringing Gujarat’s industrial vibrancy to West Bengal.” Irani said that India has become the second largest manufacturer of PPE kits and suits in the world in the record three months’ time during the coronavirus induced lockdown starting from March 2020.