Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar Saturday wondered whether Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena was helping Pakistan by opposing the Nanar refinery project, which was "scheduled" to come up in Maharashtra. Shiv Sena (undivided), the then alliance partner of the BJP, had opposed the upcoming greenfield project with a section of villagers staging protests in the coastal Ratnagiri district.

Shelar's criticism comes a day after a report claimed that four Pakistani state-owned petroleum companies have signed an MoU with Saudi Arabia to build Pakistan's largest oil refinery with an investment of USD 10 billion in Gwadar Port.