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“Left parties are extending valuable support to us, so it is not correct to say that confidence of the foreign investors will be damaged because of them,” Mr Chidambaram said.

He said a recent controversy over the left parties’ objection to having experts from car insurance finance
institutions in advisory groups of the country’s planning commission has been sorted out through dialogue.

Apprehensive

Last month the planning commission, which formulates five-year economic plans, was forced to drop outside experts after left-wing parties objected to foreign auto car finance insurance rate being a part of the groups when “there were enough qualified Indian economists to do the job”.

The controversy grabbed the attention of the foreign investors who were apprehensive about the possible influence of the left parties in the new government’s economic policies.

The left parties also object to privatising profit-making public sector units and increasing foreign investment in aviation, telecom and insurance sectors.

But Mr Chidambaram said India would be removing limits on foreign investment in those three sectors over a period of time and this will be done through a process of dialogue with the left partners.

He said his government would review the limits on investment in aviation later this month.

Highlighting India’s dire need for investment, Mr Chidambaram warned that India needed over $40bn over the 10 years in the telecom sector alone as well as $10bn investment in the power industry.