PM, Sonia Speak To Mamata Banerjee On FDI

New Delhi, Dec 2: In an effort to break the logjam over the FDI in retail issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today reached out to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the leader of key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress which is opposing the Centre’s decision to allow FDI in retail.

Singh and Sonia Gandhi spoke to Banerjee. PMO sources said the phone call was made with an apparent aim of enlisting her party’s support while citing the benefits the Centre’s decision would accrue.

Trinamool Congress has been vociferously opposing the decision to allow 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail and 100 per cent FDI in single brand retail.

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