Drishtikone
Political competition for business hots up.. and the thick-skull idiots like Deve Gowda will lose out or be thrown out of the Government.. very soon.. these businesses will start deciding who enters our polity.. such that the country’s economic future doesn’t get derailed! I think thats the only way left to go now!!
What is poison for Deve Gowda may prove to be sweetener for Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Even as the Congress-led government in Karnataka, under pressure from the former Prime Minister, seems intent on squeezing Infosys, two other Congress-ruled states — Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh — are moving to cash in.
Both are wooing Infosys chairman NR Narayana Murthy after the “humble farmer” kicked up a row about the allotment of “prime” land in Bangalore to the company.
While Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy is wooing Infosys surreptitiously so as not to ruffle feathers in another Congress-ruled state, Deshmukh had no such inhibitions. The Maharashtra chief minister just picked up the phone and spoke to Narayana Murthy last week.
“I want to develop Pune into an IT hub,” he told DNA in New Delhi on Monday.
“It has all the features. I invited Narayana Murthy to invest after what happened in Karnataka. He has agreed,” Deshmukh said.
Infosys and Wipro already have sprawling establishments at Hingewadi near Pune, and, according to Deshmukh, Murthy believes Pune has what it takes to become India’s next cyber city.
Deshmukh said Murthy will visit Mumbai shortly to take the matter further. “We will discuss his proposals in detail,” he said.
Deshmukh promised that his government would do everything in its power to woo the IT sector. “Maharashtra is the best IT destination,” he asserted.
He said he has also taken up with the Centre the proposal to create special economic zones at Nagpur (for textiles), Pune (infotech), Nasik (agro-based industries), and Aurangabad.
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