‘State was never in the picture’: Ex-Maharashtra minister on Vedanta-Foxconn project going to Gujarat

Expressing surprise at the joint venture of mining conglomerate Vedanta and Foxconn being announced in Gujarat, Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai, who was the industries minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government, Wednesday said Gujarat was nowhere in the picture when the discussions about the project was on.

“The project was being discussed for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana. At that time, there were these three states in competition. All the three states were dominant in IT resources. Gujarat was never in the picture when discussions were being held with representatives of Vedanta and Foxconn,” Desai told The Indian Express.