Tata-Airbus project now ‘lost’ to Gujarat, Maharashtra govt fears blowback

 

Tata's new project is moving from Maharashtra to Gujarat.  And based on this incident, political pressure has started again in Maharashtra.  Recently one project after another has been missed in Maharashtra.  The Thackeray group has naturally accused the ruling group of failure.  They claimed that during Uddhav Thackeray's tenure as Chief Minister, the Industries Minister of his cabinet held constant discussions with the Tata authorities.  But the Fadnavis-Shind government could not keep the agreement.  However, the Fadnavis-Shind government has rejected the complaints of the opposition.  They claim that there was no official discussion with the former government about the contract.

• What's the story?

For the past few days, the politics of Maharashtra has been active on industrial issues.  Not only the Tata Airbus project, but Maharashtra has also left Vedanta-Foxconn, Bulk Drug Park, and Medical Device Purse project in the last few days.  And the destination of all the projects in Gujarat.  There is a lot of buzz in the business circles as industries move out one after the other in the vote-oriented BJP state.  The Tata Air Bus project is moving to Gujarat instead of Maharashtra despite Union Minister Nitin Gadkari writing to the Tata authorities.  But the BJP government in both states.  The Tata Air Bus project is going to be launched in Vadodara in Gujarat instead of Nagpur.

Aditya Thackeray has hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after the Tata-Airbus project fell through.  "The industrialists have no confidence in this government," he said.  Uday Samant, the current Industries Minister of Maharashtra, has given a change.  He said that they may have had several meetings in person.  If there was anything official, he would have had his documents.  But there is no record of meeting between Tata and Maharashtra government in the office.

• What's next?

Although several media reports, the Tata authorities had performed Reiki in four cities of Gujarat in December 2021.  Talks with the government there have also progressed a lot.  At that time, the Agari coalition government was in power in Maharashtra.  As a result, the question remains as to whose fault Maharashtra lost about 2000 crores worth of industrial investment.