Former MP Sanjay Nirupam
Congress must take a stand on former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s declare that Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh needed cops to gather Rs 100 crore month-to-month from bars and motels, former MP Sanjay Nirupam has mentioned.
“If in any respect, no matter Parambir Singh is saying is fact, the query ought to be requested from Hon Sharad Pawar ji as a result of he’s the architect of the present Maharashtra Govt. Is it what the so-called third entrance goes to do lastly?
Congress must take a stand on this challenge,” he tweeted.
The demand by Nirupam got here even because the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) state authorities, comprising Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, is reeling underneath the influence of the “letter bomb” by the serving IPS officer.
A former Shiv Sena chief, Nirupam joined the Congress in 2005.
In the eight-page letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Singh alleged that Deshmukh used to name cops to his official residence and provides them a “collection target” from bars, eating places and different institutions.
The Chief Minister’s Office, in a late night time launch, mentioned Singh’s “unsigned letter to Thackeray” was not despatched from his official e mail ID and efforts had been on to contact him to confirm it.
Ending the hypothesis, Singh later confirmed that he certainly emailed the letter, a signed copy of which is able to attain the federal government shortly.
The IPS officer claimed that the minister informed Waze that he had set a goal of accumulating Rs 100 crore a month, half of it from practically 1,750 bars, eating places and comparable institutions working within the metropolis.
Singh additionally claimed that Deshmukh “from day one” needed a case of abetment of suicide to be registered in Mumbai after the demise of Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar in a Mumbai resort final month.
Sources within the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress state authorities mentioned Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar are but to take a name on changing the house minister within the backdrop of the most recent controversy.
BJP chief and former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis sought Deshmukh’s resignation over the claims made by the IPS officer.
“We demand the house minister’s resignation. If he does not, then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray must take away him.
An neutral probe must be carried out. The letter additionally says the chief minister was knowledgeable about this earlier, so why did not he act on it?” mentioned Fadnavis, Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly.
