Thackeray said the state government has a debt of nearly Rs five lakh crore, is firm on giving unconditional loan waivers to farmers
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered a review of all on-going development projects in the state, including the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. The Bullet train project is considered to be the pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The bullet train project has faced a lot of opposition from farmers and tribals whose lands are to be acquired in the route.
While addressing reporters on Sunday Thackeray said “Our government is of the common man. Like you asked now, yes, we will review the bullet train (project). Have I stayed the bullet train project like Aarey car shed? No, I haven’t,”.
Maharashtra debt reach five lakh crore
The Maharashtra government will also come out with a white paper on the financial condition of the state, Thackeray said.
Thackeray said the state government has a debt of nearly Rs five lakh crore, is firm on giving unconditional loan waivers to farmers.
Maharashtra Government to withdraw cases against Aarey activist
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced that his government will withdraw cases against activists who tried to stop the felling of trees in Mumbaiās Aarey Colony for a metro car shed project.
In October, 38 people were booked in the protests against the authoritiesā move to cut trees, even as the Bombay High Court dismissed a series of petitions to stop to work and give it the status of the forest. Of the protestors, 29 were arrested but later granted conditional bail.
A day after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government forged this announcement has come by the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress more than a month after the election results were out won the trust vote in the state Assembly with the support of 169 legislators in the 288-member House.
He added “The priorities of the previous BJP-led government in Maharashtra – in which his party was a constituent – were not “misplaced”.
Thackeray added that there would be no vendetta politics by his government.
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