ED News: Nawab Malik’s questioning by ED: NCP calls it pressure tactic to silence his voice; BJP says don’t term it vendetta politics

The NCP on Wednesday claimed Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case was one other occasion of misuse of energy and a strain tactic to “silence his voice” since he had uncovered wrongdoings of some folks within the latest previous. The BJP, nonetheless, mentioned the ED must be allowed to finish its inquiry into the case as an alternative of dubbing the motion as “vendetta politics”.

The ED on Wednesday questioned state Minority Affairs Minister and NCP’s chief spokesperson Malik in a cash laundering probe linked to the actions of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, officers mentioned.

The 62-year-old NCP chief is acknowledged to have arrived on the ED’s workplace in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property space round 8 am and the company is recording his assertion beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), they added.

NCP spokesperson Clyde Crasto alleged that the motion in opposition to Malik was nothing however “strain techniques” to silence his voice.

“He was exposing the wrongdoings of some folks as a Chief Spokesperson of a political get together. Voices of fact can’t be silenced,” Crasto tweeted.

Speaking to reporters in Solapur, Maharashtra NCP president and state minister Jayant Patil mentioned this was one other occasion of “misuse of energy”.

“The ED reached his (Malik’s) residence at 6 am with out issuing any discover. The ED had introduced with it its personal police. Some folks could also be intentionally attempting to bother him. The ED taking away a state minister for probe with none prior info is violation of all the pieces,” he claimed.

Patil mentioned he was not conscious wherein connection Malik is being probed and that it appeared anger is being “intentionally” expressed on the minister.

Nonetheless, senior BJP chief and former state finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar advised reporters that it’s too early to name the ED’s inquiry as “vendetta politics” when the main points of the motion should not but out.

“What ought to we name the best way Union minister Narayan Rane was arrested a number of months again. BJP MLA Nitesh Rane can be being hounded by the state authorities. Malik is just not a state-level chief of the NCP. If he has carried out one thing suspicious, then it must be probed. There shouldn’t be any rush to stamp it as vendetta politics,” Mungantiwar mentioned.

Maharashtra BJP vp Chitra Wagh mentioned a number of months again, severe allegations have been levelled by former state CM Devendra Fadnavis in opposition to Malik in reference to a suspicious land deal.

“It must be probed totally and the ED officers must be allowed to finish their investigation,” she mentioned.

The ED’s transfer in opposition to Malik comes after registration of a brand new case and raids carried out by it on February 15 in Mumbai in reference to the operations of the underworld, linked alleged unlawful property offers and hawala transactions.