Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday demanded a thorough investigation into the alleged road construction scam in Mumbai. He called for the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) to take charge of the investigation and for a committee of MLAs to be formed to oversee the process.
Thackeray claimed to have exposed the scam as far back as January 15, 2023, alleging that the entire tender process for road construction was tainted. "We have demanded that the scam in the construction of roads should be investigated by EOW and a committee of MLAs should also be formed... I also exposed this scam on 15 January 2023 and told that there was a scam in the entire tender of roads...," Thackeray said.
He accused the government of making false promises, saying they claimed to level all of Mumbai's roads within two years, but instead, scams were committed, and lies were told. "The government had been saying that all the roads of Mumbai would be levelled in 2 years... lies after lies were told, and scams were committed in this... Our demand is that there should be an investigation by EOW...," said Thackeray.
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Earlier in January, Aaditya Thackeray slammed the Eknath Shinde-led government for floating new tenders for 400 km of road work, claiming the government was not doing any work on the ground. In the Press conference, Shiv Sena Leader Aaditya Thackeray said earlier, "This government last year floated tenders worth 5000 crores for roads but nothing happened. Now a new tender has been floated. The Rs 6000 crore tender was floated for 400 km of road work. Usually, the work begins in October and ends by June before the beginning of the monsoon. But now, if tenders are given at this moment, when will the work be done."
Aaditya Thackeray also questioned, "Did they get the Non-Objection Certificate (NOC) from traffic? Various questions are there. This is a Big scam of BMC," he alleged. (With inputs from ANI)