Mumbai, Jul 15 (PTI) Maharashtra PWD Minister Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena today his party leadership never opposed the Nagpur-Mumbai expressway project which is facing opposition in certain districts over land acquisition issues. Shindes comments comes in the wake of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray last month expressing his opposition to acquisition of agricultural and fertile land for the road corridor. "The Shiv Sena leadership was never against the samruddhi mahamarg. We only wanted to protect farmer interest and hence I visited Nagpur for witnessing the signing of land sale deeds. Its a development project and we will not oppose it if issues raised by land owners are addressed," Shinde, the leader of the Shiv Sena in the assembly, said.

Source: India Today July 15, 2017 12:11 UTC