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Britishers did not want to build steel industry in India: Shashi Tharoor

The Congress party's biggest achievement in the last 70 years was it created the capacity of steel plant in the country: Tharoor

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Former diplomat and Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor said the Britishers never wanted steel industry in India and it was Congress that created capacity for the same.

“Britishers spent lot of time actually thinking to prevent creation of steel industry in India,” Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram said. The former United Nations official was here to deliver the keynote address in the first forum of All India Professional Congress Wednesday evening.

When Jamshedji Tata planned a modern steel plant, he has to wait for 20 years to get the permission from the British authorities, he said. The Congress

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