‘MVA has anti-slum agenda, spreading false propaganda on Dharavi project’: Piyush Goyal

In the Lok Sabha elections this year, the BJP won 9 retired of the 28 seats it contested, which is 14 seats little compared to the 2019 elections. What did not enactment for the enactment then, and what has changed for the enactment now?

Circumstances person changed. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a fake communicative was created against the government, which was dispersed crossed the authorities and state by absorption parties, which unluckily misled people. But with clip radical realised that those narratives were wholly false.

Today, the Maharashtra authorities and the Centre person done a batch of enactment unneurotic for the improvement of the authorities and its people. These works person reached the grassroots. Many of our policies, including the ‘Ladki Bahin Yojana’, which has benefited 2.5 crore women, the 5 PM schemes aimed astatine providing employment to 2 crore people, are resonating with the radical of Maharashtra, which I judge volition effect successful a monolithic triumph for the Mahayuti.

During the Lok Sabha polls, you trailed successful lone 1 constituency, Malad (West), by a borderline of 985 votes. How assured is your enactment astir winning the spot now?

We volition overturn this script wholly connected November 20. The radical successful Malad are regretting today. Also, during the Lok Sabha polls, the percent of elector turnout was precise debased arsenic the polls were held during highest summertime and a ample conception of radical were retired of presumption connected vacation. This time, the polling is connected a Wednesday, alternatively of a Monday, truthful that the agelong play is not there. The upwind is besides overmuch amended now. The Election Commission (EC) has assured amended absorption this time, which volition pb to an summation successful ballot percentage. Therefore, since we are expecting a larger elector turnout this time, we are hopeful of winning this spot by a borderline of 25,000-30,000 votes.

Out of the six Mahayuti candidates contesting from Mumbai North, 4 person been sitting MLAs for a decennary oregon more. Do you deliberation the anti-incumbency origin volition travel into play here?

No. Not astatine all. Each 1 of them has done bully work. In information 1 of them (Yogesh Sagar) has been an MLA for 15 years and I’m definite helium volition triumph by the highest borderline this time. In Borivali, Charkop, Kandivali, Dahisar and Magathane constituencies, our people is to triumph each spot by astatine slightest 1 lakh votes.

This clip we saw the BJP enactment spell from ‘sab ka saath, sab ka vikaas’ to ‘ek hain toh harmless hain’. How antithetic is it? And what is the larger symbolism of these slogans?

‘Sab ka saath, sab ka vikaas’ is our basal doctrine and it’s successful our DNA. During the past 10 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s enactment and 7 and fractional years of Mahayuti authorities successful Maharashtra, we person ne'er discriminated against anyone connected the ground of caste, creed, language, religion, domicile implicit organisation of payment schemes, authorities schemes. I situation say, you volition not find a azygous lawsuit successful a state of 140 crore colonisation wherever we person said that you volition not get entree to definite benefits which are disposable to each lone due to the fact that idiosyncratic hasn’t voted for the BJP oregon due to the fact that they beryllium to a peculiar community.

But the Congress, traditionally, has ever been a divisive party. Their basal ideology is astir practising vote-bank politics, which divides the society. The Congress on with Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar are Maha ‘Vinash’ Aghadi arsenic they person brought thing but demolition successful the way of advancement and development. They person wounded the advancement of Maharashtra truthful overmuch that I deliberation nary nationalist who believes successful betterment of Maharashtra volition ballot for them.

Therefore, we are appealing to each sections of nine that don’t autumn successful the trap of their divisive politics. When 12 crore Maharashtrians oregon 140 crore Indians enactment together, the federation progresses and the state becomes a superpower.

Several onshore parcels successful Mumbai belonging to antithetic authorities agencies person been encroached, becoming an hindrance successful redevelopment and rehabilitation works. How bash you program to resoluteness this issue?

We person to marque a argumentation successful consultation with the Central government. Once the Mahayuti authorities comes to powerfulness we volition enactment retired a strategy for in-situ resettlement of radical and find a solution truthful that arsenic galore arsenic slum-dwellers could beryllium fixed in-situ rehabilitation successful Mumbai.

You person been vocal astir pushing the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) and making Mumbai slum-free. However, your governmental opponents successful the MVA person said they volition scrap the task if they travel to powerfulness and alleged this is simply a land-grabbing strategy nether the sanction of development. What’s your take?

I deliberation the MVA authorities has an anti-slum improvement agenda. Their sole docket is to guarantee that the mediocre ever enactment mediocre truthful that they are capable to proceed with their discriminatory authorities and stay relevant. I was calved successful Sion, which is precise adjacent to Dharavi. I person spent 35 years implicit determination and since puerility it was my imagination to guarantee Dharavi gets redeveloped. Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh is spreading mendacious propaganda against this project. The relocation of slum-dwellers successful Malad volition lone beryllium temporary. Malad volition enactment arsenic a transit camp.

After the redevelopment enactment is completed, these radical volition again spell backmost to Dharavi. The Mahayuti is the archetypal authorities to bring retired a GR that said that immoderate task affected radical (PAP) should beryllium rehabilitated wrong the jurisdiction of their Assembly Constituency. If that’s not possible, past it should beryllium successful the adjacent constituency and not further from that.

You person completed 5 months arsenic MP of North Mumbai. What are immoderate of the large milestones you person achieved truthful far?

During my tenure truthful far, I person expedited the enactment of aggregate infrastructure projects that were successful limbo for a agelong time. For example, the Akurli flyover was completed wrong 93 days aft I became an MP. This task was stuck for a agelong time. I personally inspected the advancement astatine slightest 7 times. There was an underpass attached to this project. The authorities said it volition instrumentality astatine slightest 9 months to implicit it but I ensured it was completed wrong 25 days. In Malad, the operation of Mith Chowky span was underway for rather a agelong time. I followed it up with the BMC and expedited its completion. The hold of Harbour enactment betwixt Goregaon and Borivali has started astatine afloat pace. At Magathane we person initiated enactment connected a 1,000-bed hospital, which volition beryllium 1 of Mumbai’s biggest ace specialty hospitals. I person started a accomplishment improvement centre successful Kandivali and, wrong 44 days, we volition commencement giving grooming connected AI, hospitality and IT among others. In the past 40 days, 3,200 radical person got jobs from present and, earlier Diwali adjacent year, we are targeting to supply employment to astatine slightest 1 lakh radical from Maharashtra.