Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray lauds NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his family for their development vision

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray heaped praise on NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his family for their development visionThackeray was in Baramati the NCP chiefs hometown to inaugurate an Incubation amp Innovation Centre and Scientific Research Institute set up under the Agricultural Development Trust Baramati where Sharad Pawar Deputy CM and NCP leader Ajit Pawar and prominent industry personalities were present The CMs visit comes a day after NCP leader and former state home minister Anil Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate ED in a money laundering caseThe Thackerayled Shiv Sena shares power with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra Calling Sharad Pawar a youthful leader Thackeray said the NCP president has shown the sun of development to everyone Pawar saheb is leading the state he is leading several such institutes here and while he is continuously working his family is also working tirelessly towards one obsession and that is development he saidThackeray said in politics opponents are a must We were also opponents and we used to criticise also but the entire world knows about the friendship between Pawar saheb and late Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray Balasaheb used to tell us that we should go to Baramati and see what Sharad Babu has done over there the CM saidReferring to the incubation centre Thackeray in a veiled reference to the BJPShiv Sena alliance which got snapped after the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls said there should be an incubation centre in politics We Shiv Sena had opened one incubation centre 25 years ago We also hatched some unwanted eggs and everyone knows what happened later he quippedThe CM said Ajit Pawar was telling him that Baramati would become the no 2 centre in education after Pune According to me as far as teaching lessons in politics is concerned Baramati is already number one I am sure the way Pawar and his family are working towards development it will become one of the best centres not only in Maharashtra but in the country he saidThe CM also appreciated the Agricultural Development Trust Baramati for bringing in best practices from abroad and implementing them He also lauded the NCP president for bringing a transformational change in Baramati and surrounding areas On the occasion Sharad Pawar said the Agricultural Development Trust has been constantly striving for innovation and thanked CM for coming to Baramati and inaugurating the innovation centreThe trust strives to use the best innovative practices and knowledge available in institutes worldwide and in India and use them for rural areas he saidThe NCP leader said he would strive to set up a centre of Artificial Intelligence in Baramati Assuring full support of the state government Chief Minister Thackeray said he would never come in the way of good work and if there are obstacles and redtapism those will be removedWe have to do all those things which will make our state not only number one in the country but also in the world and we will do it for sure he saidWhile wishing everyone for Diwali the CM said some people are talking about bursting bombs after the festival I would like to tell them that burst the bomb burst crackers but ensure there is no smoke as we are yet to overcome Covid19 he quippedAlso Read Political bombs dont need Diwali Maha CM takes potshots at BJPled government and Devendra FadnavisNotably Maharashtra NCP minister Nawab Malik on Monday sought to link the BJP with an alleged narcotics dealer by tweeting the latters photograph with former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis wife Amruta Fadnavis Devendra Fadnavis later said Maliks tweet reflected his mentality and claimed that he will burst a bomb after Diwali by making revelations about the ministers underworld links which he will also share with Sharad PawarThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever