With the indefinite strike by jewellers entering the eight day on Wednesday, a Kolkata-based organisation said that the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council has been invited by the Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, to discus their demands.
Mr Mukherjee has invited the jewellers to meet him in Delhi on April 6 to discuss their demands, Mr Ashok Begani, President, Calcutta Gem and Jewellers' Welfare Association, told PTI.
Members of the association are on indefinite strike in protest against increase in import duty and excise duty on gold.
Mr Begano said they will intensify their agitations if the Government refuses to rollback the import and export duty hike.
Mr Begani said if the Centre refused to rollback the duty hike, the Association members would hold a token hunger-strike here on April seven.