Investors don't have confidence in 'khoke sarkar', taunts Aaditya Thackeray

Former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray on Friday said investors did not have confidence in the Eknath ShindeBharatiya Janata Party BJP government which he referred to as khoke sarkar and that was resulting in projects moving out of the stateThe Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader slammed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde saying after taking charge in June he was busy addressing political gatherings instead of visiting other states seeking investmentsHe was speaking to reporters here in the backdrop of Airbus and a Tata consortium choosing Vadodara in Gujarat as the site for its Rs 22000 crore project to build C295 military aircraftThis is the fourth project that has gone out of Maharashtra I saw the state industry ministers Uday Samant statement on the issue this morning It seems the way he was unaware on VedantaFoxconn which too moved its semiconductor project to Gujarat from Pune he is unaware about the Tata Airbus project Thackeray allegedAlso read Aaditya Thackeray slams Shinde govt says industry has no faith in Khoke govtThe previous Shiv Senaled Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government had set up an ease of compliance committee to get such projects but one wonders if the panel has even met once in the last three months since the ShindeBJP government took over in June he addedWe can see industrialists do not have confidence in this khoke sarkar government formed out of bribery worth crores of rupees as alleged by the Senas Uddhav Thackeray faction and that is why every investment which was supposed to come to Maharashtra is now moving to other states he allegedHitting out at the chief minister Thackeray said he was busy visiting mandals groups which set up Lord Ganesh pandalsl Dahi Handi events and addressing political gatherings instead of visiting other states seeking investments for MaharashtraMadhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik came to Maharashtra seeking investments Show me one instance when our chief minister went out for the same Thackeray saidHe said the MVA government had managed to get Rs 650 lakh crore worth of investments even amid the COVID19 pandemic with 99 per cent of these memorandums of understanding MoUs getting executedHowever despite having the same governments at the Centre and the state BJP is part of Shindeled administration why is one engine referring to the state dispensation continuously failing In May we managed to get investments from the World Economic Forum in Davos the former minister saidIt showed the coordination between the Centre and the thenMVA coalition was good while the traitor government a term often used by the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena to describe the Shinde regime is failing he claimedThe Shiv Sena UBT ally Congress alleged Maharashtras economic interests are being undermined by the CentreMaharashtra Congress leader Sachin Sawant said it was the Modi governments wish that all important projects should go to GujaratThe Tata Airbus project was shown the Dholera site in Gujarat by the Centre but it is going to Vadodara This proves my point that Dholera in Ahmedabad district is an impractical site It is the Modi governments wish that all projects should go to Gujarat Maharashtras prospects are being consciously damaged tweeted SawantHe said BJP leaders do not have the courage to confront the Modi government about financial losses being caused to MaharashtraThe Industries Minister Uday Samant said the MOU for military aircraft project was signed a year ago but that was between the Centre and Airbus and not with Gujarat he said in another tweetHe said ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel has announced an investment of Rs 60000 crore in Gujarat and the Prime Minister on Friday virtually attended the bhoomi pujan of the expansion project of the companys flagship plant at Hazira in Surat districtThe company has a plant in Talegaon near Pune city The company in an advertisement in newspapers has made it clear that the reason behind the investment in Gujarat is Modijis vision the Congress leader saidThis 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