BALCO: Jogi hopeful

By Our Staff Correspondent

RAIPUR, APRIL 18. The State Chief Minister, Mr. Ajit Jogi, today said that a solution to the Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) imbroglio was possible within the parameters set by the Chhatisgarh Government. He said though his Government was not a party to the controversy and they had nothing at stake but we, too, want the deadlock to end.

Mr. Jogi said his Government's stand on the matter was clear and had been defined earlier. It was now for the Centre to take the initiative. ``However, my sympathies will always be with the workers because they are fighting for a good cause,'' he said. The Chief Minister said he had already told the workers that they would need to have lots of patience if they wanted to succeed because it was a long drawn battle. Denying that there was any kind of pressure on him from the Congress president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, to end the strike, Mr. Jogi said the outcome of the talkshave shown the kind of pressure there was on him.

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