Mumbai: Despite his enormous capability, the Union Agriculture Minister and NCP president Sharad Pawar could not do much for his home state, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray said here on Friday. "Pawar has got enormous capability. But he could not deliver much for the state. All the industry has gone only to Baramati (Pawar`s hometown)," Raj said. "He considers only Baramati as his constituency, not the entire state." In a veiled attack on his estranged cousin and Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray, Raj said that Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of neighbouring Gujarat, did not put up hoardings to tom-tom the work done.
"I have not seen hoardings in Gujarat claiming that `we have done the work`, he said, in apparent reference to hoardings put up by Shiv Sena, ahead of the February civic polls in Mumbai.
Raj was speaking at an interactive program, organised to mark fifty years of Vanita Samaj in central Mumbai.
As to Shiv Sena`s opposition to the nuclear power plant in Jaitapur in the coastal Ratnagiri district, Raj said that the project should be implemented.
"The Jaitapur project should be implemented. The issue will not be resolved by purchasing power from other states. Our state will profit by selling the surplus power."
PTI