Nanar row: Fadnavis hits back at Shiv Sena

IANS  |  Mumbai 

Minutes after ally attacked the proposed Nanar refinery project, Chief Devendra hit back on Monday.

Taking umbrage at his ministerial colleague Shiv Sena's Subhash Desai's assertion that the land acquisition notification of May 18, 2017 for the project has been "cancelled", retorted by saying that he (Desai) had no authority to do so.

"The said notification has not been cancelled. That authority vests only with the (HPC) which is headed by the Chief Secretary, and not with any

"Whatever decision on this, which is in the interest of the state and Konkan, can only be taken by the HPC after proper discussions at the appropriate time," said.

He also made it clear that "this (cancellation of notification) was the minister's (Desai) personal opinion and it was not the view of the government.

"No such proposal has been received by the HPC on this issue and no notification (on Nanar) has been cancelled," said.

of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil attacked Thackeray for his comments and said the Shiv Sena's opposition to the Nanar project was "a deal".

"If you say the CM's word has no value in Delhi, then why are your ministers still working in the government under him? You have already hit a double-century on the number of times you threatened to quit the government," Vikhe-Patil said.

Similarly, Nationalist Party's said both the BJP and Sena had betrayed the trust of the people of Konkan and Desai's statement on cancelling the May 2017 notification was a farce.

The Sena came under fire after its said on Monday that the Nanar refinery project would not be allowed to come up in Konkan and challenged the government to shift it to or relocate it to Vidarbha.

Nanar village is the site for the proposed Rs 3-trillion world's biggest integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex with a capacity to process 60 million tonne, coming up in collaboration with a Saudi company.

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First Published: Mon, April 23 2018. 16:54 IST