‘Cleared 65 files, held reviews’: Maharashtra CM Shinde says ‘not on leave’ as visit home brings Oppn jibes

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, facing the Oppositions ire for taking a three-day leave from work with his visit to his home district (Satara), is going out of his way to emphasise that he may have been at home, but was not vacationing...

The Chief Ministers Office (CMO) has issued a statement saying that he virtually joined a meeting at the secretariat from Satara and cleared 65 files during his three-day visit which ended Wednesday...

Former chief minister Fadnavis is Deputy CM in the current Shiv Sena-BJP regime, and Shindes visit to Satara comes at a time when separate posters hailing Fadnavis and NCPs Ajit Pawar as the next chief minister cropped up in Nagpur and Dharashiv, respectively...

Other than resting and monitoring his farm, statements from the chief ministers office said Shinde performed a bhoomi pujan ceremony for a road from Tapola to Mahabaleshwar in the Satara district to improve connectivity between the two tourist spots...

The official quoted earlier added that Shinde also chaired a district review meeting and met BJPs Shivendra Raje Bhosale a direct descendant of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji besides receiving a delegation of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, a linguistic socio political group based in Karnatakas Belagavi, during his visit to Satara...