Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde | Photo Credit: PTI
Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government is completely lagging behind on the path of Maharashtra’s progress, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said it would spend Rs 2 lakh crore to boost various infrastructural projects in the state. Providing financial assistance of.
Addressing a gathering during his visit to an agricultural expo in Nashik city, Mr. Shinde said that the State Government had approached the Center to resolve issues related to sugar mills and the Center had taken steps to ensure the existence of the industry in the State. Was assured to take a positive decision. ,
“The state government is committed to the development of the common people and has taken several decisions in their interest in the last six months… The first phase of the Samridhi Expressway [Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway] Nagpur and [the temple town of] Shirdi is already complete. Our government is determined to complete the next phase of the project which will prove to be a game-changer for the development of Maharashtra,” Mr Shinde said.
Ever since Mr Shinde’s inter-party rebellion split the Shiv Sena in June last year and brought down the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Uddhav Thackeray, the new government of CM Shinde and BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis has drawn criticism from the opposition MVA alliance. had to face. Big-ticket projects such as those of Vedanta-Foxconn are reportedly being “lost” in neighboring Gujarat.
Earlier this month, Mr Shinde, after his return from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had claimed that one lakh jobs would be created – directly or indirectly – as a result of the memorandum of understanding (MoU). ₹1.37 lakh crore signed by the State Govt.
Taking a dig at the MVA, especially Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray, Mr Shinde had asserted that these MoUs “will be implemented on the ground and not just on paper”.
The high-level contest for the Mumbai civic body or the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is expected to be a decider between rival Shiv Sena factions led by Mr Thackeray and in view of the imminent announcement of the long-pending Maharashtra civic polls. Mr. Shinde
While the Thackeray camp (along with the MVA) is crafting a narrative of a ‘respectable’ Maharashtra of the BJP-Shinde-led Shiv Sena alliance, which is bowing down to the BJP’s top leadership at the Centre, the latter is at pains to show that that a government led by the BJP backed by the might of the Center is more beneficial for the state.