Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Monday claimed that projects worth Rs 7 lakh crore, which could have generated nearly five lakh jobs for Maharashtra youth had gone out of the state, and mostly to Gujarat during the past two-and-half years rule of the saffron alliance government in the state.
Gandhi was addressing a press conference in Mumbai where he accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and its partners of handing over Mumbai to the Adani group through projects like Dharavi redevelopment. “Maharashtra election is an election between two ideologies. Their ideology favours a couple of billionaire industrialists and our ideology favours poor and unemployed commoners. Unemployment and inflation are main issues and they are trying to divert the attention by making statements that will divide people,” Gandhi said.
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He also alleged the Dharavi redevelopment is a way to give an estimated Rs1 lakh crore to one of the most favoured industries group of Prime Minister Modi. Gandhi also showed two posters – one showing Adani and Modi and the second one showing a map of Dharavi.
Gandhi then said that MVA will conduct a caste census in Maharashtra like the congress governments are doing in Karnataka and Telangana.