'Mumbai becoming startup capital of India': Devendra Fadnavis's top quotes at GWS 2025

CM Fadnavis was speaking at the Moneycontrol Global Wealth Summit 2025 in Mumbai

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said Maharashtra will be a $1 trillion economy by 2030.

He was speaking to Moneycontrol's  managing director Nalin Mehta at Moneycontrol's Global World Summit 2025 in Mumbai. The CM said Maharashtra is the only state which has chased the half trillion-path.

Here are the top quotes of Fadnavis at the event.

•  Maharashtra is the Fintech capital. People used to build  startups here and then go to Bengaluru. Now, reverse migration is happening

• Maharashtra is the startup capital in absolute numbers, and also investments

• Maharashtra has the power to attract investment and we are working to leverage it

• Maharashtra is de facto fintech capital and data capital

•  We also hope Tesla to come. If they ask us, then we will say best case is Maharashtra for investment

•We are developing the best infrastructure in roads and also data

•Semiconductor is a 7-step process, and we already have proposals with six companies

•If some projects have gone out still Maharashtra is number 1 for investment and will remain so

•If Gujarat develops then I am happy, if Karnataka develops then also I am happy.  Afterall investment is coming in India

• 52% Maharashtra is drought prone, we have worked on a plan to make it drought-free. We have made river linking plans to make Maharashtra drought-free

•Last year, we had  23 lakh lakhpati didis. Now, we have a target of 25 lakh lakhpati didis

•Dedicated pipeline to transport iron ore mined from Gadchiroli

•Eknath Shinde and we are together

• Don't want to take revenge with opposition, but wants to make a change

• Mahayuti will contest election unitedly in BMC elections

•  Opposition should be sensible and should have vision for the country

• Relationship was never bad with opposition, especially Uddhav Thackeray