From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Apr 5: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee Chief DK Shivakumar expressed serious concern on why entrepreneurs are hesitant to invest in the State due to growing communal unrest and prefer other neighbouring States and urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to ponder over the situation.

Speaking to media representatives near his residence on Tuesday, he said the Congress government took the initiative by organising Global Investors Meet when senior leader SM Krishna was the Chief Minister and enabled big industrialists and even multi-national companies to invest in the State.

When the then Prime Minister AB Vajpayee came to lay the foundation stone for the Bengaluru International Airport, he had said the investors from foreign countries visit Bengaluru first and then proceed to other States, Shivakumar said and mentioned that the present communal unrest has made investors hesitate to invest in the State.

The KPCC Chief said the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh government has been making determined efforts for developing infrastructure and other projects during the last 15 years and was now competing in attracting entrepreneurs to invest in its State. The situation now has changed due to various incidents and communal divide, he said.

Shivakumar said the ruling BJP and the Chief Minister must ponder over this and take steps to arrest the situation rather than indulging in scoring debating points.

Karnataka has produced engineers, technocrats and medical professionals and the State, especially Bengaluru is regarding as the Start-Up Capital and Knowledge city of India, he said asking Bommai to seriously consider the genuine concerns expressed by Biocon Chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and other leading industrialists.