Nawab Malik arrest: MVA ministers stage dharna, say ‘black chapter in country’s history’

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and varied different state ministers sat on a dharna in Mumbai on Thursday to protest in opposition to the arrest of their cupboard colleague Nawab Malik by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case.

NCP chief Pawar, whose social gathering shares energy with the Shiv Sena and Congress within the state as a part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), was the primary to achieve the protest website near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue close to the state secretariat Mantralaya.

He was later joined by State Residence Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Well being Minister Rajesh Tope, Water Assets Minister Jayant Patil, Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, Minister of State for Tourism Aditi Tatkare (all NCP leaders), Income Minister Balasaheb Thorat, Reduction and Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar, PWD Minister Ashok Chavan, Sports activities Minister Sunil Kedar, Textiles Minister Aslam Sheikh and MoS for Residence Satej Patil (all from Congress).

NCP MP Supriya Sule and state ladies’s fee chairperson Rupali Chakankar had been additionally current. After the protest started at 10 am, no senior Shiv Sena chief was seen for about an hour. Later, state Industries Minister Subhash Desai, who belongs to the Uddhav Thackeray-led social gathering, joined the protest.

State Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray and Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut are presently in Uttar Pradesh for the Meeting elections campaigning. Speaking to reporters, Thorat claimed that central probe companies had been being getting used to silence political opponents.

“That is unlucky and a black chapter within the nation’s historical past,” the Congress chief mentioned. Jayant Patil, who can be the state NCP chief, mentioned the allegations in opposition to Malik are “baseless”. Malik will reply to all of the allegations of terror hyperlinks in opposition to him within the courtroom, he mentioned.

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The BJP’s “try to overthrow the MVA authorities” has not been profitable but. “The motion in opposition to the serving cupboard minister is a part of such a transfer,” he claimed. Shiv Sena MLC Manisha Kayande, who additionally joined the protest, claimed that for the previous 27 months, the BJP has been making an attempt to destablise the MVA authorities which has carried out nicely.

Malik (62), the state minority affairs minister and NCP’s chief spokesperson, was arrested on Wednesday after being questioned for about 5 hours on the ED’s workplace in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property space. He was later produced earlier than particular decide R N Rokade, who remanded him within the ED custody until March 3.

The company mentioned the cash laundering probe was linked to the actions of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. Malik was on Wednesday produced in a particular PMLA courtroom the place the probe company claimed the NCP chief was “actively” concerned in “terror funding”.

After a gathering of prime leaders of the ruling MVA on Wednesday night, a senior NCP chief mentioned there isn’t any query of taking the resignation of Malik since he has not dedicated something flawed. 

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