Noise against Emergency a total farce, claims Sena NANAR WILL BE KONKAN FARMERS’ ‘GENOCIDE’: SAAMANA EDIT

Slamming the central and the Maharashtra governments over the Nanar refinery project, the Shiv Sena on Friday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis dictators and claimed that the noise made by them against the Emergency was a farce.

In an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana', the Sena also said that laying a brick for the USD 44 billion mega refinery project at Nanar in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra would be akin to laying the foundation stone for a cancer hospital there. “Due to this poisonous project, people will suffer from cancer, tuberculosis and other chest-related ailments. If this project is being thrust upon people despite their objection, it is akin to Emergency,” it alleged.

“PM Modi should shut down the Environment Ministry at the Centre as well as those at the state level. While nature lovers are doing their best for the environment, the Centre is coming up with poisonous projects that will destroy it,” the editorial alleged. It added that the Nanar refinery project would harm the area's ecosystem and destroy farm produce there.

“Modi-Fadnavis are engaging in dictatorship. If they want to be dictators, the noise made by them against the Emergency, which happened 43 years ago, was a farce," it alleged.

Hitting out further, the Saamana editorial alleged, “Like Hitler killed lakhs of Jews and caused mayhem, this Nanar project is a conspiracy to kill people in their homes and destroy their lands by trapping them in a gas chamber.” It said that Fadnavis had made a commitment that the project would not be thrust on the people of the area and people from the panchayats there had already submitted their opposition to the Maharashtra CM. "If the will of the majority is not respected in a democracy, it is considered a dictatorship," it said.

“Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan, sitting in Delhi, signs pacts and then comes to Mumbai expecting support. This is betrayal,” it added.

Speaking about the reported threat to the life of Modi, the Sena said while strict guidelines were imposed on those wishing to visit him, the people of Nanar were being treated like insects.

"In a democracy, it is fine if people die, however, the king should live. Our soldiers and farmers are dying. The slogan of ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ is dying,” the Sena claimed.