Shinde govt was formed for serving Gujarat instead of Maharashtra: Jayant Patil

Nationalist Congress Party leader Jayant Patil on Thursday slammed the Eknath Shindeled Maharashtra government over the loss of big industrial projects accusing it of serving GujaratSpeaking at a protest organized by the NCP to demand resumption of police recruitment he also said that a group like Tata choosing another state for its project was an embarrassment for the governmentProjects are being shifted to Gujarat and the chief minister and deputy chief minister are mute spectators Had the VendantaFoxconn project come to the state it would have generated three to four lakh jobs directly or indirectly Patil saidAfter VendataFoxconn Tata consortium and Airbus military aircraft project too went to Gujarat said the former state finance ministerAlso Read Maharashtra to provide compensation to farmers for crop loss caused by OctoberConspiracy was hatched to bring a new government in the state so that the new government would serve Gujarat more than Maharashtra the NCP leader further claimedThe Shindeled government came to power after the Shiv SenaNCPCongresss Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government collapsed in June this yearPatil also accused the state government of creating hurdles in the implementation of decisions taken by the MVA governmentWe had taken the decision of police recruitment and the present government needs to only implement it but they are creating hurdles he allegedOn a state government advertisement appearing on the front page of Saamana the mouthpiece of the Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena Patil said no newspaper would refuse an advertisementOne should also read what the newspaper has published inside he quippedAbout the Shinde government restoring the general consent for CBI to probe cases in the state which the MVA had withdrawn Patil said state police are capable of probing any matterIt shows the government does not have confidence in the Maharashtra police he addedOn deputy CM Devendra Fadnaviss accusation that there is an attempt to create a false narrative over projects going out of Maharashtra Patil said the state government did not try to speak to Vedanta chairman Anil Agrawal and bring the semiconductor project backIf a group like Tata is going out of Maharashtra it is a big embarrassment for this government he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever