BJP trying to shift Bollywood to UP Maha Congress minister

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    Mumbai, Dec 1 (PTI) Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adityanath's meeting with film personalities in
Mumbai, the Congress on Tuesday alleged a conspiracy to shift
Bollywood to the northern state whereas the BJP said nobody
can take the Film City and its glamour away from the
Maharashtra capital.
    During his two-day visit to Mumbai, Adityanath is
slated to meet industrialists and film personalities and is
also expected to attend a listing ceremony for municipal bonds
issued by the Lucknow civic body at the BSE on Wednesday, as
per a statement by the Uttar Pradesh government.
    Earlier in the day, senior Congress leader and
Maharashtra PWD Minister Ashok Chavan alleged the BJP was
scheming to take away a "slice of Bollywood" to the northern
state.
    "When BJP was in power in Maharashtra, many industries
and offices were shifted to Gujarat. Though the government
changed in Maharashtra, the BJP is now readying a script to
take away a slice of Bollywood in the name of the Uttar
Pradesh government.
    "Whatever had happened in the tenure of the BJP, we
won't let it happen again," Chavan tweeted.
    Sachin Sawant, a spokesperson for the Congress party,
a constituent of the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi
dispensation in Maharashtra, has reportedly alleged a
conspiracy to shift Bollywood out of Mumbai.
    Adityanath had earlier unveiled an ambitious plan to
set up a film city and rolled out an open offer to film
fraternity to come to Uttar Pradesh.
    The UP government had already approved a proposal for
setting up a film city in Sector 21 along the Yamuna
Expressway in Gautam Buddh Nagar.
    Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Maharashtra BJP
president Chandrakant Patil said, "Yogiji may be coming here
to study the film city and facilities being provided to the
industry, but nobody can take the film city and its glamour
away from Mumbai".
    The BJP leader also said every state has the right to
develop or provide some facilities to the film industry. "They
are free to do so," he added. PTI ND AW
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