Sudhir Mungantiwar. File. , Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre
Following Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s “Gautam Adani is a sacred cow for the BJP” remark, Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Thursday said the billionaire prospered during the Congress rule in Gujarat.
Responding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Mr Adani in Parliament, he said, “Today when you are talking about Adani, don’t you know when he got rich?”
One does not become Prime Minister just by growing a beard, he becomes [Prime Minister] With increasing wisdom, the BJP leader said.
During the party’s campaign for the by-election to Pune’s Kasba Peth assembly constituency, to be held on February 26, Mr. Mungantiwar said that when Chimanbhai Patel was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1993, Mr. Adani was given land at the rate of 10 paise per square meter and when Chhabildas Mehta became the Chief Minister, the Mundra port work was awarded to the Adani group.
The minister said, “Adani prospered during the Congress rule, and the party is trying to spread lies about the Adani controversy.”
When asked about the comment on Congress state president Nana Patole in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana and whether there is disquiet within the Maha Vikas Aghadi- Shiv Sena (UBT), the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, which has started coming out in the country. Openly, he said that he had no need to investigate what was happening in the MVA.
“Our work is not for power, our work is for truth. I don’t think there is any point in commenting on what is going on in the MVA,” the forest minister said.