
E Shinde's "Complete Ignorance": Aaditya Thackeray On $20 Billion Deal Row
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"They have to answer the people more than anyone else today," he said, slamming the Eknath Shinde-led government in the state.
Maharashtra has lost out on lakhs of jobs "only because of the incompetence and the ignorance" of the government, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray said today, accusing Maharashtra industries minister Uday Samant of 'losing' two projects which have cost the state "most about 1.7 lakh jobs". He has repeatedly said that the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra had worked extremely hard to try and win the Vedanta-Foxconn project.
"They have to answer the people more than anyone else today," he said, slamming the Eknath Shinde-led government in the state.
Gujarat recently bagged the Rs 1.54 lakh crore venture for India's first semiconductor plant. Mining conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn have decided to jointly build the plant in Gujarat's Ahmedabad. Gujarat pipped Maharashtra in a close race to win the plant location.