Team News Riveting
Ahmedabad, September 23
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday inaugurated India’s first Lactoferrin Plant Exympower in Gujarat with billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, sending a shock wave in the opposition INDIA bloc.
The former Union Minister and Maharashtra Chief Minister Saturday visited the industrialist’s office and residence in Ahmedabad. Pawar and Adani first inaugurated a factory at a village in Sanand in Ahmedabad. The NCP chief thereafter visited Adani’s residence and office in Ahmedabad.
Pawar himself posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, pictures of him and Adani cutting a ribbon of the factory. “It was a privilege to inaugurate India’s first Lactoferrin Plant Exympower in Vasna, Chacharwadi, Gujarat along with Mr. Gautam Adani,” Pawar posted on X.
In April this year, Adani had visited Pawar’s residence Silver Oak in south Mumbai. The meeting, which lasted for almost two hours, came within days of Pawar coming out in support of Adani and criticising the narrative being built around the allegations levelled by US short seller Hindenburg report.
Pawar contested the position of his Maharashtra allies Congress that had been gunning for a JPC to probe allegations of fraud and stock market manipulations. Pawar had favoured a Supreme Court committee probing allegations against the Adani group.
Sources said the relationship between Pawar and Adani goes back nearly two decades. In his Marathi autobiography ‘Lok Maze Saangatiâ’, published in 2015, Pawar heaped praises on Adani who at the time was venturing into the coal sector.
