Placing the ball in his deputy’s court docket, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday mentioned Ajit Pawar will take a call about NCP minister Dhananjay Munde who’s underneath fireplace over the Beed sarpanch homicide case.
Fadnavis’s comment on the sidelines of a rally in Delhi got here hours after Munde, Minister for Meals and Civil Provides, met him.
“Dhananjay Munde and I met through the cupboard assembly within the morning. He’s a minister in our authorities, and there’s nothing secret about our assembly. He can meet me anytime, and I can meet him anytime,” Fadnavis advised reporters within the nationwide capital.
“Ajit Pawar has made an announcement about (demand for) his resignation. No matter stand Ajit Pawar takes, can be remaining,” the CM added.
Munde has been dealing with the warmth because the arrest of his shut aide Walmik Karad in an extortion case associated to the brutal homicide of Massajog village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed district in December. Munde is an MLA from the identical district.
After activist Anjali Damania met deputy CM Pawar, who heads the Nationalist Congress Social gathering, and handed some paperwork about alleged nexus between Munde and Karad, Pawar had mentioned these discovered responsible after inquiry will definitely face motion.
Earlier within the day, NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule criticised the BJP-led authorities over the probe into the Deshmukh homicide case, saying one of many alleged killers was at massive even 50 days after the crime.
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Seven individuals have been arrested in reference to the homicide, whereas accused Krishna Andhale remains to be at massive.
“Lots of people are talking in regards to the challenge, and our collective demand is that the choice (of in search of resignation of Dhananjay Munde) on ethical grounds needs to be taken in view of the circumstances being probed by the CID in Beed,” Sule added.
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