Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday (March 23, 2021) hit out at the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and said that ‘what’s happening in Maharashtra is not ‘vikas’ (development), but it is ‘vasooli’ (extortion). Prasad’s comments came amid the controversy over the corruption allegations on the Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
The Union Minister also alleged that a ‘Khela’ is happening in Maharashtra too. He said, “The Maharashtra government is ‘of extortion (vasooli), by extortion and for extortion’. Prasad said that the Uddhav Thackeray-led government has lost moral authority to govern.
He also slammed Sharad Pawar and said that the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo’s political credibility has been dented after he was forced to speak patent falsehood.
Earlier on Saturday, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh wrote a letter to Uddhav Thackeray and alleged that Anil Deshmukh had indulged in ‘malpractice’ and asked the suspended API Sachin Vaze to collect Rs 100 crore every month.
In his letter, Singh stated, ‘Anil Deshmukh had asked Sachin Vaze to make a collection. Vaze himself told me about it.”
Singh also alleged that Maharashtra Home Minister had called Sachin Vaze at his government residence several times and had set a target of Rs 100 crore every month.
