'Projects Launched Today Developed Under Uddhav Govt': Shiv Sena As PM Modi Inaugurates Metro Routes
The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena said, "The projects that will be inaugurated by the prime minister are mostly those that have moved forward when the Shiv Sena was in power in the BMC."
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated two new lines of the Mumbai metro- 2A and 7, a 35-km long elevated corridor stretching from Andheri to Dahisar, which costs around ₹12,600 crore.
However, the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) sect of Shiv Sena today said that a majority of the projects which were inaugurated by PM Modi were planned and taken forward when the party controlled the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
In the party's mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Shiv Sena said, "The projects that will be inaugurated by the prime minister are mostly those that have moved forward when the Shiv Sena was in power in the BMC."
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Party's mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said that BJP is taking credit for the work done by the Shiv Sena and on the other hand, it is resorting to defaming the party by initiating a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) inquiry into civic projects.
This is a double standard, the 'Saamana' editorial alleged.
Citing examples, the editorial said the super specialty hospital in the northeast suburb of Bhandup, the foundation stone of which was laid by the PM, was the one promised in the Shiv Sena in its manifesto earlier and Rs 150 crore was allocated for the work in 2017.
The sewage treatment plant plans have been in the works for the last 10-12 years, and a work order was issued by the civic body after necessary permissions were obtained from the Centre and through legal battles in the Supreme Court, it said.
"The question is not of credit, but it is of misleading people," the 'Saamana' editorial claimed.