Protests against new site for refinery: Maharashtra deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis asks if Sena-UBT ‘has taken supari’ for opposing projects | Mumbai News – Times of India

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MUMBAI: Protests against a state-owned refinery in Ratnagiri escalated Tuesday despite a police clampdown which led to over 100 arrests. Women lay down in front of police vehicles to block their entry.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and industries minister Uday Samant defended their handling of the issue amid demands from Opposition leaders, including Ajit Pawar and Aaditya Thackeray, to stall the work. Samant said the project was shifted from Nanar to Barsu after the then CM Uddhav Thackeray intervened with the Centre and offered land that was unencumbered.
Fadnavis without naming Sena (UBT) leaders, said, “People from Mumbai are opposing the project. They had opposed Aarey, Samruddhi Marg and now the refinery. I want to ask if they have taken supari?”
He said, “Three national oil companies have come together to put up this refinery. The land is arid and not a single fruit-bearing tree grows there…they keep protesting and the project will be set up in TN, Kerala…the same people will then criticise that investments are going out of Maharashtra.”

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