Modi, Fadnavis dictators, noise against Emergency a farce: Sena

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Slamming the central and the Maharashtra governments over the Nanar refinery project, the Shiv Sena has dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis dictators and claimed that the noise made by them against the Emergency was a farce. In an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena also said that laying a brick for the $44 billion (Rs 3 lakh crore) mega refinery project at Nanar in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra would be akin to laying the foundation stone for a cancer hospital there.

‘Due to this poisonous project, people will suffer from cancer, tuberculosis and other chest-related ailments. If this project is being thrust upon people despite their objection, it is akin to Emergency,’ it alleged. ‘PM Modi should shut down the Environment Ministry at the Centre as well as those at the state level.

While nature lovers are doing their best for the environment, the Centre is coming up with poisonous projects that will destroy it,’ the editorial alleged.It added that the Nanar refinery project would harm the area’s ecosystem and destroy farm produce there. ‘Modi-Fadnavis are engaging in dictatorship. If they want to be dictators, the noise made by them against the Emergency, which happened 43 years ago, was a farce,’ it alleged.