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January 10, 2007 14:05 IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party is opposed to setting up of special economic zones on agricultural land and only barren land should be used for the purpose, party leader Sushma Swaraj said in Kolkata on Wednesday.
"It is a declared policy of the BJP that SEZs should not be set up on productive land and only barren land should be used," she said.
The BJP leader arrived in Kolkata leading a five-member team of party MPs on way to Nandigram where villagers staged violent protests against the move by the Left Front government to set up a SEZ by Indonesia's Salim Group.
Swaraj expressed apprehension that utilisation of productive land for SEZs might result in food grain shortage in the country ultimately leading to disruption in food security.
She insisted that there was no ambiguity in her party's stand over the issue and all party leaders spoke on the same line.
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