KALYAN: Union minister Anurag Thakur, on Tuesday, said that the Maharashtra government would not collapse. Rather it would keep doing the development work with more strength, he said.
Amid speculation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is strengthening its base in Kalyan before the Lok Sabha election from where CM Eknath Shinde's son Dr Shrikant Shinde is the current MP, Thakur, during his visit to Maharashtra's Kalyan in Thane district, said that the BJP and Balasaheb’s Shiv Sena will together contest the upcoming the Kalyan Lok Sabha election.
This is the second time when Thakur is on a visit to the Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency to meet party workers and strengthen the party by holding various programmes.
During Thakur's last visit, there were talks of BJP putting up its candidate from Kalyan.
"Do not worry about who will contest from here (Kalyan Lok Sabha) or not. We will contest together (BJP and Balasaheb's Shiv Sena) and will fight in a better way and we will win by a bigger majority."
Responding to a question as to opposition's hopes that the present government will collapse, Thakur said, "If the opposition was thinking about this, they will get disappointed. The government in Maharashtra will not collapse and we will develop the state with more strength."
Thakur said, "The central government has given many times more than what the UPA government has given to Maharashtra during the last 10 years. Be it railways, roads or metro projects, the central government was doing wholeheartedly and in future will also do the same."
