Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday held a meeting with a delegation of anti-refinery protesters led by Satyajit Chavan, who was arrested by Ratnagiri police on April 23, a day before soil survey began at Barsu village in Maharashtra’s coastal Ratnagiri district where one of the world’s biggest oil refinery is likely to be constructed.
Pawar is set to hold another meeting with state’s Industries minister Uday Samant on Monday afternoon. Both Pawar and Samant have met twice in the last week, ever since the state government used police force to suppress the villagers’ opposition to the survey.
