Multinational mining company Vedanta Limited’s move to set up its $20 billion (approx ₹1.54 lakh crore) Vendanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant in Gujarat had caused uproar in Maharashtra, with Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray and other Opposition leaders lashing out at their former colleague and now Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for sending away the investment from the State.
Mr. Thackeray claimed that the former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had brought and finalised the deal for the State. However, the Shinde-Fadnavis government let it go to Gujarat, which caused not only a loss of a $20 billion semiconductor project to the State but also 170 allied industries and about 1 lakh jobs.
Sharing the screenshots of Vedanta Limited CEO Anil Agarwal’s tweets, Mr. Aaditya Thackeray said, “Although I’m glad to see this in India, I am a bit shocked to see this. New dispensation had tweeted photos, claiming to have brought this to Maharashtra, but it seems the intent/commitment was to send this away from Maharashtra. Our MVA govt. had brought this to the final stage.”
