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The Congress connected Monday (November 3, 2025) claimed that the BJP-JDU successful their 20 years of regularisation successful Bihar person lone established the "migration industry" and "systematically and deliberately weakened" the State's contented of industry.
Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh reiterated his party's resoluteness to revive and fortify Bihar's contented of industry, asserting that the State needs reconstruction, not migration.
"In its 20 years of rule, the BJP-JDU has established lone the migration manufacture successful Bihar, a State brimming with limitless concern potential. Bihar has been virtually erased from the nationalist representation of improvement and industry," Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
“Once renowned for its sugar, paper, jute, silk, and dairy sectors, Bihar has contiguous go synonymous with unemployment and migration,” helium claimed.
Mr. Ramesh said that aft Independence, Congress governments successful undivided Bihar acceptable up galore concern units that firmly established the State connected the country's concern map. “During that era, Bihar's improvement instrumentality spun rapidly astir dense industries, energy, dairy, and obstruction production,” helium said.
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Listing cardinal concern units established nether the Congress rule, Mr. Ramesh cited the Barauni Oil Refinery which helium said turned Bihar into an vigor accumulation hub. He said the Sindri and Barauni fertilizer plants bolstered the nation's fertilizer information portion Barauni Dairy was the instauration of today's Sudha Dairy.
Mr. Ramesh besides gave the illustration of Rail Wheel Plant, Bela; Diesel Locomotive Plant, Marhowrah; Nebi Nagar Thermal Project; and Sudha Cooperative Dairy Network.
"On 1 hand, Congress governments laid the concern instauration successful Bihar with imaginativeness — connected the different manus the BJP-JDU authorities hasn't established a azygous important industry; instead, done their corrupt and disorganised policies, they've ruined adjacent the existing ones," Mr. Ramesh alleged.
He cited the illustration of Ashok Paper Mill, claiming that his 400-acre analyzable has present turned into ruins, and machines person rusted away, portion workers person been uprooted.
"Bihar erstwhile had implicit 33 sweetener mills, accounting for astir 40% of the country's full sweetener production. Today, astir of them prevarication shuttered: Sakri, Rayam, Loht, Motipur, Banmankhi, Motihari...Machines were loaded onto trucks and sold arsenic scrap," Mr. Ramesh said.
“The Prime Minister promises successful each predetermination to restart them, but 1 sweetener mill aft different has unopen down,” helium said.
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"The jute manufacture has met the aforesaid fate. Rameshwar Jute Mill successful Samastipur has been closed since 2017. Bhagalpur's famed silk manufacture is gasping its last. The spun silk mill has been unopen for years. 95% of weaver families are drowning successful indebtedness and poverty," helium said.
"The Chief Minister (Nitish Kumar) says: Big industries are acceptable up by the sea. The Union Minister says: There's nary onshore for manufacture successful Bihar. Yet onshore is handed implicit to the Prime Minister's favoured industrialists astatine ₹1 rupee per acre," Mr. Ramesh alleged. “Today, much than 3 crore radical person near Bihar successful hunt of employment,” helium claimed.
“From Bihar's borderline districts specified arsenic Katihar, Kishanganj, Purnia, Araria, labourers are toiling arsenic regular wagers arsenic acold arsenic Bengal and Assam,” helium said.
Posing Congress' questions to the BJP-JDU government, Mr. Ramesh asked erstwhile his enactment established dense industries specified arsenic Barauni, Sindri, Hatia, and Bokaro successful landlocked Bihar without entree to the sea, wherefore is mounting up industries being called intolerable today.
"Isn't it existent that implicit the past 20 years, Bihar has been stripped of industry, leaving lone a migration-based economy?" Mr. Ramesh said.
“Isn't it besides existent that the mills which provided employment to farmers, workers, and younker person go casualties of the BJP-JDU's "misguided policies and negligence",” Mr. Ramesh said.
"Congress' resoluteness is to revive and fortify Bihar's contented of industry, employment, and self-reliance, which the BJP-JDU authorities has systematically and deliberately weakened implicit the past 2 decades. Bihar needs reconstruction, not migration," the Congress person said.
The Bihar polls volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11, and results volition beryllium announced connected November 14. The Opposition INDIA bloc, which has the RJD, Congress and the Left parties arsenic the main constituents, has declared RJD person Tejashwi Yadav its Chief Ministerial campaigner for the Bihar polls.
