Hundreds of cattle-rearers held a mahapanchayat near Gandhinagar in Gujarat to demand scrapping of a bill passed by the state Assembly to tackle the menace of stray cattle in cities.
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Fuming over Maharashtra losing the multi-crore Vedanta-Foxconn project to Gujarat, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday criticised Chief Minister Eknath Shinde s leadership and said that the Central government s promise to Shinde to give a bigger project to Maharashtra than this is like convincing a child.
On Vedanta-Foxconn s decision to set up a semi-conductor facility in Gujarat instead of Maharashtra, Vedanta Resources Ltd Chairman Anil Agarwal on Wednesday said that the company is still committed to investing in Maharashtra.
Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray also on Wednesday slammed the Maharashtra government for letting the Vedanta deal slip away from the state and questioned the uninterestedness of the Shinde camp