Wages revision of tea workers is an election issue in Assam with opposition including congress attacking the BJP led government for deliberately delaying wage revision for the last several years. Assam is likely to go to assembly polls in April this year.
Union minister and BJP MP Smriti Irani on Tuesday dared Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to "take out money" from the pockets of small tea traders of Gujarat and to contest elections from the state if he has "guts".
Union minister Smriti Irani. (file photo)
VANSDA: Union minister and BJP MP Smriti Irani on Tuesday dared Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to take out money from the pockets of small tea traders of Gujarat and to contest elections from the state if he has guts .
She also alleged the Congress hatred and prejudice towards Gujarat and its people was not new, as Rahul Gandhi and his party had objected to the proposal to build the Statue of Unity in the memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat .
Irani was referring to the remarks made by the former Congress chief at a poll rally in Assam in which he spoke about hiking the daily wage of tea workers by making tea garden owners from Gujarat pay, if his party is voted to power in that state.
Force abroad conspiring to destroy Indian tea but we will not let it happen: PM Modi
Published : Feb 8, 2021, 4:40 am IST
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PM lauded the government for sending mobile medical units to the tea gardens and supplying free medicines to the workers
Pointing out that a special scheme entailing ₹1,000 crore was announced in the Budget for the welfare of the tea community in Assam, he said this would make the lives of the workers easier.(Photo:PTI)
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that some forces abroad have been conspiring to defame and tarnish the image of Indian tea at global level.
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