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The Gujarat chief minister asked, “Will they continue to live like this? Are they not entitled to proper houses, education for their children, health facilities and a dignified life?”

If voted to power, Modi said, he would initiate several schemes for the development and progress of tea garden labourers.

He also attacked the Congress government for creating a divide among tea gardens of Brahmaputra and Barak Valley.
 
“Why are wage rate of labourers in Brahmaputra Valley different from that of Barak Valley? Should labourers in the industry not get the same wage?”

Modi pointed out that this neglect of tea gardens in Barak Valley has resulted in sick gardens with labourers suffering and unemployment on the rise.
 
“Congress should be ashamed of this. They consider the Bangladeshis as their own but not the tea garden labourers of Barak Valley,” he added.


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