Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday has decided to challenge the state government’s decision of appointing BJP MLA Prashant Thakur as a CIDCO chairman, terming this appointment as a conflict of interest.
NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said chief minister Devendra Fadnavis should cancel the appointment of Thakur within a week, otherwise, “We will challenge it in the respective court with evidence.”
Malik said that in his 2014 state assembly elections affidavit, Thakur has shown that the Thakur and his family members Ram Thakur, Paresh Thakur are owners of Thakur Infraproject and Thakur Brothers Infrastructure Public-Private Ltd. (TBIPPL). “Both these firms had bagged Rs 900 crore worth contracts from CIDCO only, so this is the conflict of interest case.”
“In such scenario, either Thakur has to resign from the chairmanship of CIDCO or he should return back these Rs 900 crore worth contracts to CIDCO again. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had done the blatant violations while appointing Thakur as chairman of CIDCO. The person who is chairman of the CIDCO should not have taken the contracts or cannot allot contracts to his own firms,” Malik said.