Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh after form...
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh after former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh levelled charges of corruption against the Nationalist Congress Party leader, reported NDTV.
In a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Singh had claimed that Deshmukh was extorting money from bars, restaurants and hookah parlours in the city. The former police chief wrote that suspended Crime Branch officer Sachin Vaze told him that the minister had asked him to collect Rs 100 crore every month through illegal channels. Deshmukh has refuted the allegations.
“We demand the home minister’s resignation,” Fadnavis, the former chief minister of Maharashtra, told reporters. “If he doesn’t, then the chief minister [Uddhav Thackeray] must remove him. An impartial probe must be conducted. The letter also says the chief minister was informed about this earlier, so why didn’t he act on it?”
Besides Fadnavis, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who is the cousin of Uddhav Thackeray, has also demanded Deshmukh’s resignation.
“Mumbai’s former Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh’s letter to the Chief Minister is explosive,” he tweeted. “This is so damaging for Maharashtra’s image. The Home Minister Anil Deshmukh needs to submit his resignation immediately and a thorough investigation too needs to be made.”...
