PM Modi Told Ratan Tata To Set Up Aircraft Unit In Gujarat: Sharad Pawar
NDTV
Sharad Pawar said Ratan Tata wanted the project to come up in Maharashtra, and in consultation with him, a 500 acre plot in Nagpur MIDC area was marked for.
Former Union minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday claimed that the Final Assembly Line (FAL) of Tata Advanced Systems and Airbus in Gujarat was to be set up in Maharashtra, but was shifted at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Ratan Tata wanted the project to come up in Maharashtra, and in consultation with him, a 500 acre plot in Nagpur MIDC area was marked for it,” Mr Pawar said, addressing an election rally in Baramati assembly constituency.
“This was during the Manmohan Singh-led government, of which I was a part,” Mr Pawar said. “Our government changed and when Modi became the PM, he called Tata and told him to set up the factory in Gujarat,” Mr Pawar said.
