The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) asked chief minister Eknath Shinde to protect jobs and investments in Maharashtra and not fall prey to what it called his ally Bharatiya Janata Party’s plan of diverting big industrial projects from here to other states.
Maharashtra NCP chief spokesman Mahesh Tapase said his party has taken a serious view of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s attempt to woo Bollywood and state-based industries for investments in the northern state.
After Gujarat, now the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (both states are ruled by BJP) has come to steal our projects, Tapase alleged. On Thursday, Adityanath held a roadshow in the financial capital in connection with an investor summit to be held in Lucknow next month and also met prominent personalities from the Hindi film industry.
Earlier, Vedanta-Foxconn and Tata-Airbus projects, initially planned to come up in Maharashtra, were diverted to Gujarat to enable the BJP win the Assembly elections in the neighbouring state, the NCP leader said.
The BJP has clearly started its calculation for the 2024 general elections and hence party Chief Ministers are coming to Mumbai to strip Maharashtra of its wealth created by the blood and sweat of Marathi people in the past 60 years, said the NCP leader.
The BJP, which is part of the Shinde-led government, clearly has dubious plans and the chief minister should ensure no project goes out of Maharashtra, Tapase said.