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Ratnagiri refinery: Centre does not value CM’s word, says Uddhav

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Uddhav Thackeray AV 1Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over the mega-refinery at Nanar in Ratnagiri district by claiming that the Centre did not value the CM’s word.

Thackeray said that the Centre had given the go-ahead for the project despite Fadnavis promising that the refinery would not be “imposed” upon local residents if they were opposed to it.

“The Chief Minister had promised that this project will not be imposed upon people. However, that is what has happened. This is cheating. It indicates that the chief minister’s word is not valued by the Centre,” Thackeray said in a statement issued on Thursday.

A Press Information Bureau release on Wednesday had stated that a consortium comprising Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, along with Saudi Aramco, had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop the Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (RRPCL), an integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex, in Maharashtra.

The release had added that Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, may also seek to include a strategic partner to co-invest in the project.

Thackeray, in his statement, claimed that the Sena would not allow the project to take off “under any circumstance”, adding that the project would destroy the natural splendour of the Konkan region.

It will finish off the region in the name of development and it would destroy mango orchards, bamboo plantations and huge tracts of forests, Thackeray claimed.

“I had explained all these points to the CM when I met him and he too had agreed. The CM should have said without fear that he will not sit quiet if injustice is meted out to his people,” Thackeray said.

Meanwhile, former Congress leader and chief of the newly-formed Maharashtra Swabhimaan Paksh, Narayan Rane, also met Fadnavis to convey his opposition to the refinery project.

Rane, currently a Rajya Sabha member, hails from the Konkan region and has been elected to the Legislative Assembly several times from there.

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