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 Aircraft project flies to Gujarat, Shinde govt. faces Oppn. flak Parties blame the govt. for losing yet another big-ticket project, even as the ruling coalition maintains that the project moving to Gujarat had nothing to do with the upcoming election No industrialist had any faith left in the Shinde govt, says Aaditya Thackeray. PTI- Shoumojit Banerjee Pune A fierce bout of political sabre-rattling erupted in Maharashtra on Friday as the government came under heavy flak from the Opposition parties for allegedly ‘losing’ another big-ticket project to Gujarat after the Centre announced that the ₹22,000 crore Tata-Airbus project (for manufacturing military transport aircraft) would now come up in Vadodara despite the State government’s efforts to locate it in Nagpur. Coming barely a month after the ‘flight’ of the ₹1.5 lakh crore Vedanta-Foxconn project to Gujarat, the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition was accused of “ineptness” in “repeatedly losing big...

 ‘Don’t insult common man by terming basic amenities rewri’ AAP chief takes to Twitter to respond to Prime Minister’s comment that ‘culture of giving freebies’ saddens taxpayers. He asks why people, who are worried about inflation, should not receive access to free education, healthcare and electricity AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that providing free education and healthcare doesn’t amount to distributing freebies, “it is an effort to make India No. 1”. File photo The Hindu Bureau New Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday questioned why people, who are worried about inflation, should not receive access to free education, healthcare and electricity. He added that the common man should not be insulted by terming such basic amenities ‘rewri’ or freebies. Mr. Kejriwal’s remarks came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the political culture of giving “rewri” in his virtual address at the ...

 Taxpayers are saddened by ‘revri’ culture, says PM Modi The Hindu BureauRAIPUROCTOBER 22, 2022 22:11 IST UPDATED: OCTOBER 23, 2022 11:47 IST SHARE ARTICLE16PRINTAAA Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses the griha prawesham (housewarming) ceremony for over 4.5 lakh beneficiaries built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin on October 22, 2022. Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses the griha prawesham (housewarming) ceremony for over 4.5 lakh beneficiaries built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin on October 22, 2022. Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi Attacking past governments for failing to deliver fundamental necessities such as housing Mr. Modi said such schemes would break the vicious cycle of homelessness Drawing a distinction between welfare schemes that benefit the poor and “freebies”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that “revri culture” saddened the average taxpayer. He was addressing the griha prawesh...