Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 | Will ban flight of projects from here to Gujarat if elected: Uddhav Thackeray; slams Amit Shah

Kankavli (Maharashtra): Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the flight of industrial projects from Maharashtra to Gujarat and asked him to clarify his vision of development.

Thackeray reiterated the Shiv Sena (UBT)'s opposition to a refinery project at Barsu in the Konkan region over the potential risk it poses to ecology.

"Amit Shah has accused me of stalling development projects during my tenure as the chief minister in the MVA government. What is Shah's definition of development? I stayed flight of projects from Maharashtra to Gujarat. In future I will ban the movement of projects (if voted to power)," Thackeray said.

He addressed a rally for the November 20 assembly elections at Kankavli in the coastal Sindhudurg district, the home ground of his bete noire and BJP MP Narayan Rane.

Thackeray alleged that the BJP didn't even spare a submarine project which was supposed to be set up in Maharashtra.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) chief framed the forthcoming polls as a battle between "Maharashtra premi and Maharashtra drohi" (between those who love the state and the traitors).

Thackeray said he was hurt by Shiv Sena (UBT)'s defeat in the Konkan region in the Lok Sabha polls.

Narayan Rane wrested the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency from Shiv Sena (UBT) in the recent elections.

"A person who can finish off Shiv Sena is yet to be born," Thackeray said while accusing the BJP of pulling out all the stops to finish him off politically.

BJP MLA Nitesh Rane, son of Narayan Rane, is in the fray from the Kankavli assembly segment against Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Sandesh Parkar.

Assembly Elections 2024 | The Maharashtra Assembly polls will take place against the backdrop of a fractured political landscape in the western state where the Shiv Sena and NCP will be going up against the Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar factions, even as the BJP and Congress try to make their mark. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, the JMM faces a new challenge after Hemant Soren's recent arrest and Champai, a longstanding party member, joining the BJP. The Haryana election resulted in a shock loss for Congress, which was looking to galvanize on the Lok Sabha poll performance, while J&K also saw the grand old party eventually stepping away from the cabinet, with Omar Abdullah's JKNC forming government. It remains to be seen if the upcoming polls help BJP cement its position further or provide a fillip to I.N.D.I.A. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.

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