BJP candidate Kripashankar Singh says his priority on winning the election would be to set up industries in this parliamentary constituency so that people don’t have to leave home to find jobs like he once did.
For this, I will use my “Mumbai contacts”, said Singh, who moved to the city in 1971 and was once considered a strong leader of the Maharashtra Congress and also served as a former Minister of State for Home in the state. “Jaunpur, with a population of about 46 lakh, is a district where most of the youth migrate to Mumbai and other cities every year in search of employment,’ Singh told PTI.
“Every sixth North Indian in Mumbai is from Jaunpur district who has gone there for employment,” Singh said.
Singh started his political career with the Maharashtra Congress in the 1970s. About four years ago, he resigned from the Congress party and joined the BJP.
He said Jaunpur produces potatoes in huge quantities and its people are hardworking, yet there are no sugar and potato processing units here.
It is also very important to have a sugar mill in Jaunpur. About 900 acres of government land are available on the highway in the Shahganj assembly segment of the district where industries can be set up, yet so far it hasn’t happened. But now it will be used, Singh asserted.
Singh said he would use his “five-decade-old contacts” in Maharashtra, which has a thriving sugar industry, to set up potato and sugar processing units along with a sugar mill in Jaunpur.
