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Shiv Sena to continue to oppose Jaitapur nuclear plant

Shiv Sena decided to continue their opposition to the Jaitapur nuclear plant after meeting at Matoshree to discuss about the issue on Thursday noon. 

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Shiv Sena decided to continue their opposition to the Jaitapur nuclear plant after meeting at Matoshree to discuss about the issue on Thursday noon. 

Shiv Sena, partner in the ruling coalition with the BJP, had dubbed the Jaitapur nuclear power project in the coastal Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra as "monster", and said it would not allow it to proceed, after the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's assurance that it would be completed.

"We will not let Jaitapur become Fukushima (the site of nuclear reactor in Japan which was hit by a tsunami) at any cost. Shiv Sena delegation will soon meet the Prime Minister and convey our stand... If Germany can discontinue nuclear power projects, why can't we do the same?" party president Uddhav Thackeray said here this evening.

"The Jaitapur project is a monster. Don't go ahead with it thinking it is a prestige issue. If the Chief Minister says this project has reached a stage from where it cannot go back, he should first at least have a discussion with us on it," Thackeray said.

The state industries minister and Sena leader Subhash Desai echoed Thackeray while speaking to reporters at another event today.

"The motto of Shiv Sena is 'of the people and for the people'. Our party president Uddhav Thackeray has always opposed anything which is not in the interests of people of Mumbai and Maharashtra," Desai said.

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