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BJP govt wants to gift Palghar-Sindhudurg stretch to favourite industrialists: Maha Congress

BJP govt wants to gift Palghar-Sindhudurg stretch to favourite industrialists: Maha Congress

Mumbai, Mar 20 (UNI) Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshavardhan Sapkal on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the BJP alliance government, accusing it of plotting to hand over the vast coastal belt from Palghar to Sindhudurg to industrialist Gautam Adani.
Talking to reporters in neighbouring Palghar district, he alleged that after the sale of Dharavi and other key plots in Mumbai as well as the Navi Mumbai airport to its favourite industrialist Adani, the government now wants to hand over the vast coastal belt from Palghar to Sindhudurg to him.
Sapkal stated that despite opposition from farmers and without necessity, the BJP government is pushing for the Nagpur-to-Goa Shaktipeeth Expressway.

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