Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, facing opposition from the opposition for taking a “three-day leave” from work to coincide with his visit to his home district (Satara), is going to insist that he be at home Could have, but was not a holiday.
The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) issued a statement saying that he virtually attended a meeting at the Secretariat from Satara and disposed of 65 files during his three-day visit that ended on Wednesday.
“The CM office receives files from various departments. They are disposed of in a time bound manner to ensure that there is no pendency. The CM is currently on a visit to Satara, but to ensure that files do not pile up in his absence, he held a video conferencing meeting with the Additional Chief Secretary and other senior officers and cleared 65 files.
A source in the CMO insisted that the visit to Satara was pre-planned and Shinde managed to take rest for a few hours apart from attending some official events and meeting a few people.
However, with opposition leaders slamming the CM for taking a “vacation”, a change is believed to be in the cards and Shinde may lose the top post to someone from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Is it true? There is news that CM Eknath Shinde has taken three days leave from work. Sources in the media say that he has taken leave because he is upset because BJP wants (he) to be with Devendra Fadnavis Let’s reverse the roles in the current Maharashtra government,” Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Clyde Crasto said on Tuesday.
Former chief minister Fadnavis is the deputy CM in the current Shiv Sena-BJP regime, and Shinde’s visit to Satara comes at a time when separate the posters Fadnavis and NCP’s Ajit Pawar as the next chief minister were hailed in Nagpur and Dharashiv respectively.
Similarly, Shiv Sena’s (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday taunted Shinde for “going on leave” at a time when residents of Barsu in the Konkan region were holding a massive agitation against the state government. decision To shift a proposed oil refinery from Nanar in Ratnagiri district to Barsu.
CM Shinde talking to reporters at Mahabaleshwar in Satara district rejected The allegations were leveled by opposition leaders, saying that he had no business but to make allegations and that he would “respond with his work”.
“I never go on a holiday. Today, I reviewed the work on the Tapola-Mahabaleshwar road, laid the foundation stone for a portion of the road and held a meeting of district officials on hill station infrastructure to ensure all facilities to tourists.
Although he represents the Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency in Thane district as an MLA, Shinde hails from Dare village in Jawali taluka of western Maharashtra’s Satara district.
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Sources close to Eknath Shinde said that his visit to Satara was meant as a relief.
“On the first day, he mostly rested after reaching Satara. But over three days, he held several review meetings, inspected works, a land worship Celebration And met people,” an official from the chief minister’s team told ThePrint on condition of anonymity,
The official said, “For almost all official work, Shambhuraj Desai accompanied the CM. He also visited his farms in Satara. Local media also accompanied him.
Shinde-led Shiv Sena’s Patan MLA Desai is the Excise Minister of the state besides being the Patron Minister of Satara.
In addition to resting and monitoring his farm, statements from the chief minister’s office said Shinde performed a land worship Ceremony for a road from Tapola to Mahabaleshwar in Satara district to improve connectivity between the two tourist destinations.
He also sanctioned Rs 900 crore for various development works in the Tapola-Bamnoli area of Satara, some of which would also benefit his home village Dare. Shinde directed the officials to make the tourist places of Mahabaleshwar and Pachgani ‘plastic free’.
The official cited earlier said Shinde also chaired a district review meeting and met the BJP’s Shivendra Raje Bhosale – a direct descendant of the Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji – as well as a linguistic socio-political group based in Belagavi, Karnataka. Received a delegation of Maharashtra Integration Committee. During his visit to Satara.
(Editing by Amritansh Arora)
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