Davos spend Rs 40 crore, but Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde there for only 28 hours: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) politician Aaditya Thackeray said on Tuesday the Eknath Shinde government spent Rs 35 crore to Rs 40 crore on the four-day World Economic Forum in Davos but the CM spent only 28 hours in Davos.
Speaking to a TV channel, industries minister Uday Samant said the government spent Rs 32 crore to Rs 33 crore. "We did spend more than the earlier government but achieved so much more," he said.
Samant said the rent of the Maharashtra Pavilion alone was Rs 14 crore.
Thackeray said Shinde used a chartered plane that must have cost Rs 2 crore. "By the time he reached there on the 16th evening, most of the day's proceedings were over," he said.
He said the per day expense by the state government in Davos woule be Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 10 crore.
"Four companies whose projects worth Rs 33,170 crore were approved by the cabinet sub-committee on December 13, 2022, were presented as Davos deals to bloat the figures," he said. (This was reported by ToI on Saturday.)
"There are some companies who signed an MoU in 2019 for the same place, same work at lower investment figures, They are now showing up under another name," he said.