Sharad Pawar Calls For Dialogue With Villagers Opposing Refinery Project
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If the issue was not resolved even after that, an alternative site should be found, he said.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the Maharashtra government should hold a dialogue with local villagers who are opposing a refinery project in the coastal Ratnagiri district.
If the issue was not resolved even after that, an alternative site should be found, he said.
Mr Pawar spoke to reporters in Mumbai after state industries minister Uday Samant met him to discuss the issue.
Residents of Barsu village in Ratnagiri district's Rajapur tehsil, more than 400 km from Mumbai, are up in arms against the project and the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress, the NCP's allies in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, are supporting them.
