EVEN as Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday claimed that his former get together colleague after which Maharashtra House Minister ”backstabbed” him by ordering an ”open inquiry” towards him within the alleged Rs 70,000 crore irrigation rip-off, former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan denied that he had given the inexperienced sign to the probe by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
”The file signed by then House Minister R R Patil by no means reached me… I by no means signed the file and didn’t give a inexperienced sign to the open inquiry by the Anti-Corruption Bureau,” Chavan instructed this paper minutes after Ajit Pawar made the revelation. Chavan was Maharashtra’s chief minister from 2010 to 2014. He headed the Congress-NCP authorities. The federal government fell in September 2014 after the NCP withdrew assist to it.
At an election rally in Sangli’s Tasgaon Meeting seat — the place NCP candidate Sanjaykaka Patil is pitted towards R R Patil’s son, Rohit, Ajit Pawar mentioned in 2014 when Devendra Fadnavis grew to become the chief minister, he had proven him the file containing R R Patil’s remarks for an open inquiry by the ACB. ”I used to be very upset…It is because R R Patil was a detailed colleague who resorted to backstabbing,” he mentioned.
Pawar claimed that there have been makes an attempt to defame him by levelling allegations that he was concerned in Rs 70,000 crore irrigation rip-off. ”The annual expenditure of the mission was Rs 42,000 crore, however a case was made to point out that there was a rip-off of Rs 70,000 crore,” mentioned Pawar who was the Water Assets Minister within the Congress-NCP authorities from 2009 to 2014.
In addition to, he was additionally chairman of Vidarbha Irrigation Growth Company which had cleared irrigation tasks.
Chavan nevertheless mentioned he had demanded an White Paper after the annual Financial Survey was revealed. ”The Financial Survey ready by Ajit Pawar’s finance division confirmed Rs 70,000 crore expenditure in 10 years on irrigation tasks which had not been accomplished. Subsequently, I had demanded a White Paper. The White Paper was meant to level out the errors that have been dedicated. However Ajit Pawar thought I had ordered an open inquiry. The NCP withdrew assist to my authorities in September 2014 and the federal government fell,” he mentioned.
“The then governor refused to signal on the file (for open inquiry) and acknowledged that allow the brand new CM signal it,” Pawar claimed.
Notably, Sharad Pawar-led NCP withdrew assist to then Prithviraj Chavan-led authorities in September 2014 following the announcement of breaking of ties with Congress, simply days forward of the Maharashtra Meeting election 2024.
The Maharashtra ACB gave a clear chit to Ajit Pawar within the multi-crore Vidarbha irrigation rip-off after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress was sworn within the state on November 28, 2019.
Late R R Patil had served because the state dwelling minister for a substantial time throughout the tenure of the Congress-NCP governments from 2004 to 2014.
