At Maharashtra poll rally, Rahul Gandhi asks why Gautam Adani was present at 2019 BJP-NCP meeting

Addressing a rally successful the Nanded territory successful the Marathwada portion connected Thursday, Rahul Gandhi said, “Your authorities was snatched distant from you… Don’t you deliberation Narendra Modi was progressive successful that? Their ain person precocious said that Adani was progressive successful the governmental meeting. Now, archer maine wherefore would Adani beryllium contiguous successful a governmental meeting? It is due to the fact that helium wanted the Dharavi Redevelopment project.”

The Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha added that the existent Maharashtra Government has fixed Adani a payment of Rs 1 lakh crore.

In the interview, Ajit Pawar besides reiterated his assertion that helium acted with afloat cognition of Sharad Pawar successful going with the BJP astatine the time, and that helium followed his person arsenic “a enactment worker”.

In 2019, the BJP and Shiv Sena had fallen retired aft the Maharashtra Assembly predetermination results implicit the question of main ministership. In the vacuum that followed, Ajit Pawar, past a portion of the agreed NCP, had sprung up by the broadside of BJP person Devendra Fadnavis and offered support.

In a arguable aboriginal greeting swearing-in ceremony, Ajit took oath arsenic the lawman main curate and Fadnavis arsenic CM. But wrong 80 hours, the authorities had fallen, with Ajit returning to the NCP and Sharad Pawar.

In the works for much than 2 decades, the Dharavi redevelopment task aims to alteration the sprawling municipality slum successful the bosom of Mumbai into a “modern municipality locality” with high-rise towers and state-of-the-art infrastructure, and relocate its existent residents to areas crossed the city.

The Maharashtra authorities handed implicit the task to Adani Realty, whose Rs 5,069 crore connection outbid the DLF group’s connection of Rs 2,025 crore, successful November 2022.