Prayagraj: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday tore into Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray for his recent comments against the proposed Film City in Noida and said that both Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh do not belong to either Shiv Sena or its allies Congress and NCP.
While talking to the media at Circuit House Maurya said, “Why is Uddhav Thackeray’s stomach paining with UP government’s decision to set up a Film City in Noida. The Film City is being established in Noida so that the young talent from UP can get a better platform to showcase their skills in films and on the small screen.”
“The Yogi government is not transferring Mumbai’s Film City, but is creating a separate new Film City in Noida so that lakhs of people get employment.”
He also said the project will serve as a world-class stage for Hollywood, Bollywood and small screen artists. “Shiv Sena is needlessly stung over the Noida Film City project, whereas in Maharashtra too the Bharatiya Janata Party is a bigger party than Shiv Sena,” the deputy CM said.
Slamming the Congress over its opposition against the newly introduced farm bills, Maurya said the Opposition, including the Congress, were misleading the farmers. “The common farmers from UP or the country are not agitating over the laws. I am a farmer’s son myself and am well aware that the new laws are in the interest of farmers.”
Maurya also condoled the traumatic death of a child after he fell into a borehole in Mahoba district. He appealed to farmers and the public to not to keep boreholes open, so that such incidents do not occur again. “Such incidents should be taken seriously and strict action should be taken under the law in such cases,” he said. Justifying the decision of the administration to make Covid-19 test mandatory for devotees coming to the Magh Mela, he said, “The challenge is to keep Magh Mela free of novel coronavirus. In such a situation, it is necessary that people should enter the fair only after getting themselves tested for Covid-19.”