New Delhi:
Shiv Sena on Wednesday attacked the BJP-led Central government over the arrest of a second Maharashtra government minister, saying they were stabbed in the back by forces unable to fight them in a fight. fair battle. In a tweet, Sena senior leader Sanjay Raut cited Afzal Khan, the rival of Maharashtra’s immensely revered figure, Chhatrapati Shivaji. In the same tweet, he added Kansa and Ravana, the main mythological villains, with a farewell shot, “This is Hinduism”.
State Minority Development Minister Nawab Malik was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering case involving fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim – four months after Anil Deshmukh’s arrest in a corruption case.
The arrest came after his clash with Drug Control Bureau official Sameer Wankhede, who was in charge of a drug case on the yacht, in which megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was also arrested.
Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was also arrested in a drug case led by the NCB’s Mumbai unit led by Mr Wankhede last year, and the official accused the minister of playing revenge politics.
“When they couldn’t face Maha Vikas Aghadi directly, they attacked from behind like Afzal Khan. Just keep going. . Kansa and Ravana were also killed. This is Hinduism. The battle has just begun. Jai Maharashtra,” read his tweet in Hindi.
A few days ago, Mr. Raut’s boss, Minister Uddhav Thackeray, directed another religious-related carnage aimed at the BJP’s first ally, saying that “The prevailing situation in the country and the way political The low-level politics going on is not Hindutva”.
“Hindutva is not about violence or revenge. If things continue like this, what is the future of the country?” he added.
The government of Maharashtra has made it clear today that the BJP’s request for Nawab Malik’s resignation, will not be met.
Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal said: “For the past 30 years, no one has taken the name Nawab Malik in connection with the explosion in Mumbai.
Mr Malik’s party boss, Sharad Pawar, has also strongly criticized the Centre, saying that invoking Dawood is the surest way to “slander opponents”.
Citing allegations of his ties to the underworld when he was Prime Minister, Mr Pawar said, “25 years later, the same trick is being used to harass and smear”.
