Maharashtra lost the Rs 22,000-crore Tata-Airbus military aircraft project to Gujarat because then-chief minister Uddhav Thackeray "locked himself at home", for which he should apologise to the people of the state, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Friday.

The Eknath Shinde-BJP government and the opposition in Maharashtra are engaged in a bitter war of words after European aviation major Airbus and a Tata consortium chose Vadodara in Gujarat as the site for its Rs 22,000-crore project to build C-295 military transport aircraft.