New Delhi: The Telangana government has released a letter by the chairman of technology group Foxconn, confirming that its new manufacturing facility will be set up in the state, on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
Days ago, chief ministers of Telangana and Karnataka had both claimed that the largest technology manufacturer in the world was setting up a manufacturing unit in their respective states.
The letter, signed by Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn (its official name is the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd), was tweeted by the Telangana government on Monday, March 6.
Chairman, @HonHai_Foxconn Mr. Young Liu, in a letter addressed to CM Sri KCR, has stated that he was inspired by the vision and efforts of the #Telangana CM towards transformation and development of the State. pic.twitter.com/dJ82MinS14
— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) March 6, 2023
“As discussed with you [Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao] during our meeting on March 2nd, Foxconn is committed to setting up a manufacturing facility in Kongara Kalan and I seek the support of your team in operationalizing the Kongara Kalan Park as early as possible,” Young Liu says.
Kongara Kalan Park is 32 kilometres to the southeast of Hyderabad.
He also invited KCR to Taipei, in Taiwan, where Foxconn is based.
The March 2 meeting between KCR and Young Liu had taken place in Hyderabad. Hindustan Times has reported that KCR had claimed after the meeting that the unit “would create 100,000 jobs directly and indirectly over a period of 10 years.”
On March 4, Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai tweeted that he had met with the chairman and signed an agreement for a “major investment” that will create “1 lakh jobs.”
Agreement signed with Foxconn, leading electronics major, to make major investment in state after a detailed discussion with co’s C’man Young Liu. It will expected to create 1 lakh jobs. 300 acres of land near Bengaluru Int. airport allocated.
1/2 pic.twitter.com/oDPQMQbVPo— Basavaraj S Bommai (@BSBommai) March 3, 2023
On the same day, Foxconn had said that no deals had been finalised during the chairman’s visit from February 27 to March 4.
“Foxconn has not entered into binding, definitive agreements for new investments during this trip. Negotiations and internal review are ongoing. Financial investment sums discussed in media are not information being released by Foxconn,” it said, according to the news agency AFP.
In both states, opposition parties alleged that the governments were lying. In Telangana, the Bharatiya Janata Party accused KCR of fabricating news on the manufacturing unit while in Karnataka, Congress blamed the ruling BJP.
BJP only knows to serve lies to our people & make tall claims with no authenticity.
Recently, they boasted about an iPhone manufacturing unit coming up in Bengaluru with a potential of creating 1 lakh jobs, which has been proved false already.
Karnataka won't trust BJP again.
— DK Shivakumar (@DKShivakumar) March 5, 2023