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Maharashtra’s deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said that the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is out to defame the state by spreading the fake narrative of industries and investment leaving the state. He said that the claims of industries going out of Maharashtra during the present government’s tenure were false as those had left due to the misgovernance of the previous regime.
“Opposition political parties, their entire ecosystem and a few journalists are creating a fake narrative in Maharashtra by claiming industries are going out of the state. I think it is the plot of the MVA to confuse industries and investors to stop them from investing in the state,” said Fadnavis, addressing a press conference in Mantralaya. Fadnavis, who also holds the finance portfolio, said that the present government will take Mahrashtra to number one position in next two years.
Commenting on the Rs 22,000-crore Tata-Airbus project going to Gujarat, Fadnavis claimed that the decision was finalised in 2021.
“In 2016 when Tata was in talks with Airbus, I had personally followed up with Tata to set up the project in Maharashtra and continued with it till 2019,” he said, adding that he even held a meeting with the company when in opposition and had warned the then MVA government about the project going to Gujarat.
“But then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray did nothing,” he said. Fadnavis alleged that the MVA did not pursue the project of Tata-Airbus since it would have come up in Nagpur’s Mihan. “The MVA purposely worked against this project to stop them from coming to Vidarbha. They worked against the interests of Vidarbha,” he said.
He also refuted the charges that bulk drug projects and medical devices projects were snatched from the state saying those were never promised in Maharashtra.
Reacting to the press conference of Fadnavis, Shiv Sena MLA and former minister Aaditya Thackeray said, “In fact, the reply on the issue was expected from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and not the deputy CM. We lost all those projects which we could have got.”
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