Patna, Mar 30: Apparently seeking to reap electoral dividend in the next general elections, the Congress leadership is keen to be involved in the inauguration of the railway wheel factory in Bihar by April this year.
“We have come to know from the railway ministry that the railway wheel factory located in Bela gram panchayat under Dariapur block in Bihar's Saran district is ready,” AICC Secretary in-charge of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) Sanjay Nirupam told reporters.
The Congress would like the railway wheel factory to become functional and start manufacturing of wheels at the earliest for which a formal inauguaration has to take place, he said.
Although it was for the railway ministry to finalize details of inauguration function of the railway wheel factory, the Congress has proposed that it should take place next month and either Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Congress President Sonia Gandhi should inaugurate the project, the senior Congress leader said.
The details about inauguration of the railway coach factory will be worked out soon and the same may take place next month with either the PM of the Congress chief being the chief guest of the function, he said.
Nirupam said that he has learnt that the railway coach factory at Harnaut in Nalanda district too was complete, but the railway ministry was yet to fix date for inauguration.
He said that the two railway projects will be token of gift by the Congress party to the people of Bihar and fulfil demand for employment avenues of the local youths.
