Click to play videoNew Delhi: Maharshtra Revenue Minister, Narayan Rane is turning up the pressure on the state government. Rumours of his resignation have been doing the rounds in Mumbai.
Rane has had a fall-out with Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh over the allotment of 250 acres in Navi Mumbai to Videocon for a Rs 8,000 crore Liquid Crystal Display panel manufacturing project.
In a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Rane was apparently involved in a verbal duel with Deshmukh, saying the land for the project is being given at a far lesser price than the market price. Rane had suggested that the land be auctioned off.
When his suggestion was overlooked, he had made his displeasure public and on Wednesday, had launched a fresh attack on Deshmukh's style of functioning alleging "it is serving the interests of one man".
"This government is not for the common man but to serve the interests of one man", Rane, at loggerheads with the Chief Minister, was quoted by news agency PTI as saying, leaving no doubt for guessing who the 'one man' he was referring to.
"I will meet Congress high command soon and offer to resign from this government which is not doing anything for the common man but working to further interests of industrialists," Rane, who in his three years in Congress has failed to unseat Deshmukh from the CM's post, said.
Both Deshmukh and Videocon Chairman V N Dhoot hail from Marathwada region and Rane is expected to highlight their 'nexus' when he meets the party leadership.
(With inputs from PTI)
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