BJP slams CM over Girinagar nod

NASHIK: In a direct criticism of the chief minister at public rally oganised in Nashik, BJP’s Vinod Tawde, the leader of opposition in the legislative council, alleged that the Girinagar project in Mulshi, Pune, was okayed by the CM during his New Delhi visit and it was done at the behest of Congress leader Ahmed Patel, the political secretary of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
“I speak on record that the Girinagar project in Mulshi taluka was cleared by CM Prtihviraj Chavan, who heads the urban development department (UDD) ministry, during his visit to New Delhi, for Congress leader Ahmed Patel, despite it being environmentally sensitive. There are records about phone calls and the manner in which the notification was issued,” Tawde said at a public rally organized after the two-day state conclave of the BJP on Thursday night. Tawde challenged the chief minister to come clean on the allegations.
The opposition leader further said that Maharashtra was being divided into many provincial states and in the current scenario, despite there being a democratic process, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had together reduced the state to a subhedari system.
“There is Chhagan Bhujbal, the subhedar of Nashik, Ajit Pawar of Pune, R R Patil and Jayant Patil of Sangli, Narayan Rane of Sindhudurg, Sunil Tatkare of Raigad -- these are some of the subhedars without whose nod the state government cannot appoint or transfer an officer in or from any of these areas,” Tawde alleged.
The opposition leader in the state legislative assembly, Eknath Khadse, alleged that the government had been defltly putting all questionable issues on the back burner under the pretext that the enquiries were in process.
“There are numerous corruption cases that have been unearthed with regularity, but in a democratic process all we can demand is an enquiry. The government assures us that enquiries are being conducted, but fails to ensure a time-bound process, puting the issues on the backburner,” Khadse said.