Amid protests demanding the resignation of state Minister Dhananjay Munde over the Beed sarpanch homicide, BJP MLA Suresh Dhas on Sunday alleged {that a} assembly was held in June, 2024 on the NCP chief’s bungalow the place officers of a windmill firm in Beed have been demanded to pay Rs 3 crore.
Munde’s aide Walmik Karad, who has been in eye of storm for the reason that sarpanch homicide, was named in an FIR for allegedly trying to extort Rs 2 crore from the windmill firm and he had surrendered on the CID headquarter in Pune final week.
On the “Jan Akrosh Morcha” held in Pune to protest the sarpanch homicide, Dhas claimed that the officers of Avaada Vitality, which was executing the windmill challenge, held a gathering at Munde’s Parli bungalow with Walmik Karad on June 14, 2024.
“On June 14, a gathering was held between officers of Avaada Vitality with Walmik Karad and his associates on the Parli bungalow of Dhananjay Munde. After the assembly, officers of the windmill power agency tried to rearrange a gathering with Munde by way of his private assistant. This angered Karad as he felt he was being bypassed,” stated Dhas.
The MLA additional alleged Munde held a gathering at his bungalow in Mumbai with officers from Avaada firm and one other agency on June 19, 2024, when he tried to “extort” Rs 3 crore from them.
“At this assembly, Rs 3 crore was demanded from the corporate officers. The officers then conveyed this to their increased ups, who agreed to pay Rs 2 crore. The officers have been advised to right away pay Rs 50 lakh for election objective. I have no idea whether or not this quantity was obtained by Munde or Walmik Karad,” alleged Dhas.
Urging Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar to oust Munde from Cupboard, Dhas stated, “Ajitdada… Why don’t you throw out Munde from the cupboard…If the data that I shared immediately seems to be false, then I’ll stop politics… I urge Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis, Deputy Chief Ministers Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde to probe this matter totally and take it to logical conclusion… Until the investigation is accomplished, preserve Munde out of the cupboard.”
“Up to now even leaders like R R Patil and Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was the chief minister, needed to resign after dealing with allegations. I request leaders of all of the three events (BJP, NCP and Shiv Sena of the ruling Mahayuti) to ask Munde to resign,” he added.
Addressing the group in the course of the protest march, Dhas alleged that Beed has been made “Taliban and Hamas territoy” and urged the protesters to pursue the matter until the culprits are hanged.
The MLA additionally claimed that he was not making the allegations as a result of he was not made a minister.
Santosh Deshmukh, 45, a sarpanch of Massajog village in Kaiz tehsil, was kidnapped and murdered on December 9. Deshmukh’s household claimed that he was killed as a result of he had opposed extortion makes an attempt by native strongmen with hyperlinks to the NCP.
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