Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said that he was not Uddhav Thackeray to stall ongoing projects.
This remark by Fadnavis came during his speech delivered in the legislative assembly on a motion to thank Maharashtra Governor C. P. Radhakrishnan for addressing a joint sitting of both houses of the legislature.
Fadnavis said that decisions taken by the previous government led by Eknath Shinde were jointly made by Shinde and his two deputy chief ministers- himself and Ajit Pawar.
He blamed the media for trying to create a picture that he was stalling the decisions taken by the previous government. “I am not Uddhav Thackeray to stall ongoing projects. Even if a divisional commissioner or a collector takes a decision to stop some work due to some reason the media jumps to the conclusion that I am responsible,” Fadnavis said.
Interestingly these remarks by Fadnavis have come just a day after he removed Ajay Azhar, a real estate developer close to Eknath Shinde from the Maharashtra Institute for Transformation (MITR).
During his speech Fadnavis further stated that Maharashtra was the only state to give 16,000 megawatts of power to farmers and this power will be generated from solar panels by December 2026. “So farmers will get power during the day and they won’t have water their fields after a long wait during night hours,” said Fadnavis.