New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday (February 26, 2023) attacked Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) after it skipped the customary tea social gathering on the eve of the Budget session of the state legislature. Opposition events together with the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and the Congress additionally boycotted the tea social gathering hosted by the Shinde authorities forward of the funds session of the state legislature, which begins on Monday and can finish on March 25.
“In a way, it was good that the opposition did not turn for the high tea when some of them have ties with terrorist Dawood Ibrahim,” CM Shinde advised reporters.
“Instead of calling our (Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party) alliance as anti-Maharashtra, will you not call such people anti-nationals? There are some people in the opposition parties who have had ties with Haseena Parkar, sister of Dawood Ibrahim,” he added.
विधिमंडळ अर्थसंकल्पीय अधिवेशन २०२३च्या पूर्वसंध्येला आयोजित करण्यात आलेल्या चहापान कार्यक्रमाला उपमुख्यमंत्री @Dev_Fadnavis तसेच मंत्रिमंडळातील इतर सहकारी मंत्र्यासह उपस्थित राहून सहकारी मंत्री व आमदारांसोबत चहापान करित विविध विषयांवर चर्चा केली.#Maharashtra #BudgetSession2023 pic.twitter.com/CFzQOYibVP
— Eknath Shinde – एकनाथ शिंदे (@mieknathshinde) February 26, 2023
Shinde was apparently referring to former state minister and NCP chief Nawab Malik, who’s at the moment in jail following his arrest final 12 months in a money-laundering case linked to the actions of Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
The chief minister additionally took a dig at senior NCP chief and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.
“Ajit Pawar is saying that I changed my allegiance (from Uddhav Thackeray to the BJP), but he should not forget that I am still following what late Balasaheb Thackeray taught us. Even the Election Commission’s decision to allot us the name Shiv Sena and symbol (of bow and arrow) proves it,” he stated.
“Unlike Pawar, who on one day took an oath with Devendra Fadnavis (in November 2019) and changed it again within a couple of days. You need not have to be wise to make any random allegations. Pawar is like a fish out of water. Since he is out of power, he is acting in this manner,” Shinde added.
