Maruti Suziki is not planning to move out of Haryana, says Hooda

Maruti Suziki is not planning to move out of Haryana, says HoodaThe chief minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that the Maruti Suziki is not planning to move its facilities out of the state and pointed out that there is mutual trust in the long relationship between the company and the state.

Hooda also pledged any kind of support to the company from the authorities. He has clarified that the company, which is the leading automaker in the country, has not put forward any demand to the government.

The chief minister has not given a timeframe for the competition of the investigations by the Special Investigation Team into the recent rioting at the company. A riot by workers that left Awanish Kumar Dev, General Manager HR dead in a fire accident and resulted in 90 employees being jailed, is likely to affect the company's operations and disrupt supplies of models.

The workers at the factory resorted t rioting after disciplinary incident with a single employee. Several people were reportedly injured, including the company's Japanese officials and a part of the assembly line was burnt. The Haryana government has assured that the perpetrators of the violence will be punished without any delay.

Meanwhile, media reports had suggested that the state government of Gujarat led by Narendra Modi is talking advantage of the recurring law & order problems in Haryana to convince the company to shift its entire manufacturing base to Gujarat. The leading automaker has already proposed to invest Rs4,000 crore for setting up a 2.50 lakh cars per annum plant near Bechraji.