Days after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar claimed Gautam Adani was a part of the federal government formation talks “5 years in the past”, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged Thursday that the industrialist was concerned within the bringing down the MVA authorities to bag the Dharavi redevelopment venture.
Ajit Pawar made the remarks in an interview with The Information Minute and Newslaundry as he talked about his 2019 “rise up” to kind a authorities with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration earlier than he returned to the Nationalist Congress Celebration.
Addressing a rally within the Nanded district within the Marathwada area on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi mentioned, “Your authorities was snatched away from you… Don’t you assume Narendra Modi was concerned in that? Their very own chief lately mentioned that Adani was concerned within the political assembly. Now, inform me why would Adani be current in a political assembly? It’s as a result of he needed the Dharavi Redevelopment venture.”
The Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha added that the present Maharashtra Authorities has given Adani a good thing about Rs 1 lakh crore.
Within the interview, Ajit Pawar additionally reiterated his declare that he acted with full data of Sharad Pawar in going with the BJP on the time, and that he adopted his chief as “a celebration employee”.
In 2019, the BJP and Shiv Sena had fallen out after the Maharashtra Meeting election outcomes over the query of chief ministership. Within the vacuum that adopted, Ajit Pawar, then part of the united NCP, had sprung up by the facet of BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis and provided assist.
In a controversial early morning swearing-in ceremony, Ajit took oath because the deputy chief minister and Fadnavis as CM. However inside 80 hours, the federal government had fallen, with Ajit returning to the NCP and Sharad Pawar.
Within the works for greater than twenty years, the Dharavi redevelopment venture goals to rework the sprawling city slum within the coronary heart of Mumbai right into a “fashionable city locality” with high-rise towers and state-of-the-art infrastructure, and relocate its present residents to areas throughout the town.
The Maharashtra authorities handed over the venture to Adani Realty, whose Rs 5,069 crore provide outbid the DLF group’s proposal of Rs 2,025 crore, in November 2022.
