Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Reliance Fresh Faces Protest In Bengal

The signboards of Reliance Fresh outlet in Kolkata have been covered up after some stores were vandalized in the city by a partner in the Left Front government, the Forward Bloc. We are not going to shut up and sit back while someone snatches our livelihood from us. We can''t afford to see our children go hungry so we will fight back, said Hafiz Alam Sairani, Forward Bloc. If Reliance insists on opening shop, the people will protest and as representatives of the people, so will we, said Rahul Sinha, BJP. Reliance had big plans for Bengal including investments worth Rs 4,500 crore. It plans 145 Reliance Fresh stores and nine distribution centers as well as six food-processing units and 23 collection hubs. Reliance officials were not willing to comment except to say off the record that they were adopting a wait and watch policy. In Bengal then, for the moment at least, Reliance Fresh seems destined for the cold storage.

Source : www.indian-commodity.com

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