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  • ED attaches Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik’s belongings in NSEL PMLA case

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The ED on Friday stated it has connected belongings value Rs 11.35 crore of Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik within the cash laundering case connected to the Nationwide Spot Change Restricted (NSEL).

    The federal probe company issued a provisional order below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) for attachment of 2 residences and a parcel of land in Thane (close to Mumbai) “held via” Sarnaik.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing the NSEL case after taking congnisance of a 2013 FIR of the commercial offences wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police in opposition to its administrators, key officers and 25 defaulters.

    The accused hatched a “legal conspiracy” to defraud the buyers, precipitated them to industry at the platform of the NSEL, created solid paperwork like bogus warehouse receipts, falsified the accounts and thereby dedicated legal breach of believe in recognize Rs 5,600 crore of roughly 13,000 buyers, the ED stated.

    Probe discovered that “the cash accrued from quite a lot of buyers had been diverted via debtors/buying and selling individuals of NSEL for different actions like funding into actual property, compensation of remarkable money owed and different actions.”

    Speaking in regards to the position of Sarnaik and his connected corporations, it stated {that a} company referred to as Aastha Crew, a defaulting member of NSEL, has legal responsibility of Rs 242.66 crore against the trade.

    “Aastha Crew diverted Rs 21.74 crore of Vihang Aastha Housing Tasks LLP within the duration of 2012-13. Out of overall quantity of Rs 21.74 crore won via Vihang Aastha Housing Tasks LLP, Rs 11.35 crore used to be transferred to Vihang Enterprises and Vihang Infrastructure Pvt. Restricted, each corporations managed via Pratap Sarnaik and his members of the family,” the ED alleged.

    The rest quantity of Rs 10.50 crore originating from Aastha Crew used to be paid to at least one Yogesh Deshmukh. “This quantity (of Rs 10.50 crore) has already been connected below PMLA and the similar has been showed via the Adjudicating Authority of the PMLA,” it stated.

    The entire price of connected belongings on this case now stands at Rs 3,254.02 crore, the ED stated.

    The company previous this week connected belongings value Rs 6.45 crore of an organization owned via Shridhar Madhav Patankar, the brother-in-law of Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray, in reference to a cash laundering investigation.

    Quite a few politicians and ministers of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive have confronted ED motion up to now.

    NCP chief and minister within the Thackeray cupboard Nawab Malik used to be arrested via the ED remaining month on cash laundering fees, his former colleague Anil Deshmukh used to be held in a separate case and a sugar mill connected to state Deputy Leader Minister Ajit Pawar used to be connected via the company remaining 12 months within the Maharashtra State Cooperative Financial institution (MSCB) rip-off case.

    Property belonging to Maharashtra minister and NCP MLA Prajakt Tanpure and others had been additionally connected via it remaining month in reference to its probe into the alleged rip-off in MSCB. It has additionally wondered Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut’s spouse Varsha in a cash laundering case whilst birthday party chief and minister Anil Parab has been wondered via it within the case in opposition to Anil Deshmukh.

    Sena MP Bhavana Gawali too is dealing with a cash laundering investigation.

  • BJP ploy to defame Shiv Sena, says Uddhav as he turns down AIMIM’s alliance be offering

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    MUMBAI:  Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday rejected the AIMIM’s be offering of alliance, terming it a BJP ploy to defame the Shiv Sena which is heading the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive within the state.

    Addressing Sena MPs and different leaders, together with district presidents, by the use of video hyperlink, Uddhav stated, “The Shiv Sena won’t ever best friend with the AIMIM, which is the ‘B’ staff of the BJP… Who has sought an alliance with the AIMIM? It is a recreation plan and conspiracy of the BJP. The AIMIM and the BJP have a tacit figuring out. The BJP has ordered the AIMIM to defame the Shiv Sena, to lift questions about Sena’s Hindutva. Accordingly, the AIMIM leaders are making the be offering.”

    AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel had on Saturday stated the celebration was once able to best friend with the MVA to forestall the BJP from coming to persistent.

    The NCP and Congress, the opposite two companions within the MVA, had stated the AIMIM should turn out that it was once a “like-minded” celebration and now not the “BJP’s B-team”.

    Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP, stated the Sena will release ‘Shiv Sampark Mohim’, a mass outreach programme, on March 22 in 19 districts throughout Vidarbha and Marathwada areas in Maharashtra on Thackeray’s orders to dispel the confusion the BJP was once seeking to create about Sena on quite a lot of problems.

    “Uddhav ji stated Shiv Sena won’t ever sign up for forces with the AIMIM. The Shiv Sena president additionally stated that his celebration had by no means been related to and can by no means be related to those that bow sooner than the grave of Aurangzeb,” Raut stated.

    The executive minister has requested Shiv Sena leaders to “ruin” those that are doubting Hindutva propagated by means of the celebration, he stated.

    Senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday termed Shiv Sena “Janab Sena” whilst responding to AIMIM’s alliance be offering to the Thackeray-led celebration.

    Responding to the jibe, Thackeray stated the Sena all the time believed that Hindutva was once above politics.

    “What Janab Sena? The Shiv Sena is a staunch Hindutvavadi organisation. It was once and can stay Hindutvavadi. The Shiv Sena’s Hindutva isn’t adulterated,” he stated.

    Raut recalled that the BJP had shaped a central authority with the “pro-Pakistan and separatist” PDP in Jammu-Kashmir (in 2015).

    He paradoxically stated that it was once a “progressive alliance” (between PDP-BJP) that gave a brand new “path” to the rustic.

    “Now, we will be able to inform the folk which is the true Janab Sena,” Raut stated quoting Thackeray.

    Within the assembly, Thackeray recalled that RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat had said that those that take positions in opposition to Muslims “aren’t true Hindutvavadis and can’t be known as Hindus,” Raut added.

    Thackeray additionally accused Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari of “murdering democracy” by means of delaying the approval to twelve names despatched by means of the MVA to him to be appointed as MLCs from the Governor’s quota.

    AIMIM MP Jaleel had stated that AIMIM was once all the time blamed for BJP’s victory in polls and dubbed the ‘B’ staff of that celebration.

    “To turn out this allegation unsuitable, I proposed to Rajesh Tope (Maharashtra well being minister and NCP chief) that we’re able for an alliance,” he had advised a Marathi information channel.

    Arguing for the alliance, he additionally stated, “There is not any persistent left in them (Shiv Sena) to defeat the BJP single-handed. That is why they want the reinforce of Congress and NCP. I suggest that permit’s upload every other wheel to the (three-wheeled) autorickshaw and make it a relaxed automobile. We now have expelled the corporator who had adversarial the making a song of ‘Vande Mataram’ (within the Aurangabad municipal company) and he has joined the NCP now”.

    On Saturday, BJP chief and previous CM Devendra Fadnavis had taken a swipe on the Shiv Sena, calling it ‘Janab Sena’, after the AIMIM’s alliance be offering to the Thackeray-led celebration.

    Responding to the jibe, Uddhav referred to the BJP’s tie-up with the PDP, questioning if the celebration will have to be known as ‘Hizbul Janata Birthday celebration’.

    “In 2015, the BJP allied with Mehbooba Mufti, whose celebration had adversarial the putting of terrorist Afzal Guru… Our Hindutva isn’t the same as BJP’s Hindutva, which is geared toward power-grabbing at any price. We parted techniques with the BJP, now not with Hindutva,” he stated.

    Pronouncing to release a public outreach power, ‘Shiv Sampark Mohim’, from March 22 in Marathwada and Vidarbha, he requested celebration leaders to focus on “the appearance and confusion” the BJP is making an attempt to create on quite a lot of problems by means of unleashing its propaganda equipment at the strains of the Nazis.

    He exhorted Shiv Sena leaders and staff to extend the celebration’s base, particularly in BJP bastions.

    “Up to now, lets now not contest many seats as a result of our alliance with the BJP. Now, we will have to center of attention on those seats and achieve out to each family,” he stated. 

    NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday stated his celebration was once now not vulnerable to best friend with AIMIM, an afternoon after AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel proposed an alliance with tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), headed by means of Shiv Sena.

    The Shiv Sena has already rejected Jaleel’s advice for an alliance.

    “I’ve been studying about this observation (of Jaleel) however I need to explain that this isn’t our celebration’s stand (to best friend with AIMIM),” Pawar advised journalists at Baramati within the Pune district.

    “They (AIMIM) can discuss alliances however the events they’re speaking about will have to settle for such proposal within the first position,” the previous Union minister stated.

    Pawar stated although the AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) proposed a tie-up on the state stage, the formation of such an alliance must be authorized by means of the nationwide committee of political events.

    Talking at every other tournament, Pawar spoke a few imaginable assembly with government referring to every other Pune airport, the site for which is but to be finalised.

    “Quite a lot of defence institutions are situated in and round Pune. Each morning, IAF conducts coaching sorties in those spaces. We want to perceive their (defence’s) perspectives and for that, we will be able to hang a gathering within the subsequent fortnight,” Pawar stated.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • ‘BJP’s B group’: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut regulations out alliance with AIMIM

    By means of ANI

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut on Sunday pushed aside the potential of an alliance with Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), terming it BJP’s “B group”.

    Chatting with media individuals right here nowadays, the Shiv Sena MP mentioned, “Uddhav Thackeray in his assembly with celebration MPs and district presidents nowadays mentioned that Shiv Sena won’t best friend with AIMIM. He added that AIMIM is BJP’s ‘B group’.”

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    Ratu previous additionally rejected the recommendation of AIMIM’s alliance with Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), pronouncing those that bow earlier than the grave of Aurangzeb can’t turn into Maharashtra’s excellent. “Our celebration used to be shaped at the values of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Sambhaji Maharaj and would proceed with the similar values. Why would we shape an alliance with a celebration which bows down at Aurangzeb’s grave?. How are you able to even recall to mind that?” Raut mentioned on Saturday.

    “Maharashtra govt is shaped by way of 3 events, Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Celebration. There can be no inclusion of any fourth celebration,” Raut had additionally mentioned.

    This comes after AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel mentioned that AIMIM is prepared to go into into an alliance with Congress and the NCP within the upcoming Maharashtra civic polls with a view to defeat BJP.”AIMIM is at all times held answerable for BJP’s victory, it’s mentioned that we’re ‘B’ group of BJP, so we gave them (Congress) an be offering to shape an alliance with us. Since they’re with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, they are going to by no means conform to shape an alliance with us,” Jaleel mentioned the day before today.

    Particularly, civic frame polls are slated for later this yr. Meeting polls within the state can be held in 2024.

  • Have ‘Kashmiri Pandits’ develop into ‘Kashmiri Migrant Workers’? Centre thinks so

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    NEW DELHI:  Have Kashmiri Pandits develop into ‘Kashmiri Migrant Workers’ within the eyes of the Govt of India?  At a time when there’s a rising sentiment at the plight Kashmiri Pandits fuelled by way of Bollywood movie ‘The Kashmir Recordsdata’, the Ministry of House Affairs has referred to as them ‘Kashmiri Migrant Workers’. 

    In a written respond to a zero-hour query raised by way of Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi at the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits on February 4, Nityanand Rai-the minister of state for House Affairs referred to as “Kashmiri Migrant Workers”.

    The Shiv Sena MP, reacting to Kashmiri Pandits being referred to as ‘Kashmiri Migrant Workers’ mentioned: “The letter speaks of Kashmiri Migrant Workers. Kashmiri Pandits don’t seem to be migrants sir, Kashmir is their house and so they proceed to attend to go back with dignity and honour”.

    In line with the written reaction won by way of Chaturvedi, out of 6,000 Transit Lodging (TAs) authorized by way of the federal government to deal with Kashmiri Migrant Workers in Kashmir valley, only one,025 devices had been finished whilst 1,488 devices are in several phases of entirety.

    “Within the preliminary section the non-public land was once to be received for development of those transit lodging. Alternatively, because of value escalation and time overrun in land acquisition procedure, Government of J&Ok in 2019 to obtain state land with the purpose to hurry up the development works,” the ministry famous within the written answer.

    “It’s anticipated that development might be finished by way of 2023,” it mentioned. 

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  • Setback for Uddhav? Shiv Sena luggage much less votes than NOTA in Goa, UP, Manipur

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena bagged much less votes than those which went to NOTA in Goa, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, Election Fee knowledge displays.

    The Sena, which is in energy in Maharashtra in alliance with the NCP and Congress, had contested Meeting elections in those 3 states however drew a clean.

    In Goa, the Sena had fielded applicants in 10 seats.

    They all misplaced deposit.

    Sena applicants were given not up to 100 votes in Cortalim (55 votes), Quepem (66), Vasco-Da-Gama (71) and Sanquelim (99).

    `Not one of the Above’ or NOTA choice secured 1.12 in step with cent of general votes polled in Goa, whilst the Sena bagged a trifling 0.18 in step with cent votes.

    In Manipur, the Shiv Sena contested six seats.

    The NOTA secured 0.54 in step with cent votes within the northeastern state whilst the Sena bagged 0.34 in step with cent.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the Sena had bagged 0.03 in step with cent votes as of Thursday night, whilst NOTA has gathered 0.69 in step with cent votes.

    About its dismal efficiency, Shiv Sena leader spokesperson Sanjay Raut mentioned his celebration gained much less votes than NOTA as it fell “wanting (foreign money) notes”.

    “The Sena gained much less votes than NOTA as a result of lets no longer organize `notes’ utilized by the BJP. Nonetheless we contested in Goa and Uttar Pradesh. Our combat will proceed. Victory or defeat isn’t the tip, it’s the get started. We will be able to proceed to paintings,” the Sena MP mentioned.

    The celebration had deployed a battery of leaders together with Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray for campaigning.

    Aaditya Thackeray campaigned in Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

    Sanjay Raut, Vinayak Raut, Arvind Sawant and Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar additionally campaigned in Goa.

    However the celebration didn’t make a foray within the neighbouring state even supposing Goa has a large Marathi-speaking inhabitants.

    Maharashtra Minister and Shiv Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday mentioned result of the simply held meeting polls, the place the BJP emerged victorious in 4 of the 5 states that voted, is not going to have an effect on the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive within the state.

    Unfazed via the Shiv Sena’s deficient efficiency in states, the place the celebration had fielded applicants, he mentioned it used to be just the start of an electoral adventure for the Maharashtra-based outfit.

    The Shiv Sena bagged much less votes than those which went to NOTA (not one of the above) in Goa, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, Election Fee knowledge confirmed.

    The Sena, which is in energy in Maharashtra in alliance with the NCP and the Congress, had contested Meeting elections in those 3 states however drew a clean.

    Chatting with newshounds right here, Thackeray mentioned the Shiv Sena will contest elections from the gram panchayat stage to Parliament in quest to enlarge its organizational base.

    “That is only a starting,” he mentioned, including “the Shiv Sena will win in the future.”

    The Sena minister had campaigned for celebration applicants in Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

  • Maharashtra Meeting adjourned in brief over suspension of 12 BJP MLAs

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    MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Meeting used to be on Thursday adjourned until the tip of the Query Hour over the problem of the presence of a BJP MLA, who used to be a number of the 12 birthday party legislators suspended for a 12 months all over the monsoon consultation in July 2021.

    Shiv Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav to start with claimed within the Space that the judiciary can not intervene within the lawsuits of the legislature, however later stated he used to be no longer towards the legislators being taken again and sought after to understand the standing of the answer which used to be handed for the suspension.

    Significantly, the Excellent Courtroom previous this 12 months quashed the one-year suspension of the 12 BJP MLAs, announcing it used to be “worse” than expulsion or disqualification, and that such an motion past the remainder length of an ongoing consultation would affect the democratic setup.

    The SC had held that the answer postponing those MLAs past the length of the rest of the consultation held in July 2021 used to be “unconstitutional” and “irrational”.

    BJP legislators Yogesh Sagar, Sanjay Kute, Ashish Shelar, Abhimanyu Pawar, Girish Mahajan, Atul Bhatkalkar, Parag Alavani, Harish Pimpale, Jaykumar Raval, Narayan Kuche, Ram Satpute and Kirtikumar Bhangdia have been suspended ultimate 12 months for alleged misbehaviour with the then presiding officer Jadhav within the Speaker’s chamber.

    On Thursday, Jadhav objected to MLA Sagar taking part in lawsuits all over the Query Hour.

    Elevating some degree of process, Jadhav requested how the MLAs have been allowed to go into the Space forward of the of entirety in their one-year suspension.

    The Legislative Meeting suspended the MLAs and the judiciary can not intervene within the lawsuits of the legislature, he stated.

    Jadhav additionally stated the legislature must assert itself in this factor.

    Contributors of the opposition and treasury benches rushed to the neatly of Space, leading to noisy scenes.

    Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal then adjourned the Space until the tip of the Query Hour.

    When the Space re-assembled, Jadhav stated he used to be no longer towards the BJP MLAs being taken again, however sought after to understand the standing of the answer which used to be handed in regards to the suspension.

    He stated the court docket judgement can be a precedent in all of the nation.

    The Maharashtra govt and the legislature must have reacted to offer protection to the rights of the legislature.

    The Space must were knowledgeable concerning the standing of the answer, he stated.

    Ashish Shelar, who used to be amongst the ones suspended, stated the 89-page court docket judgement does no longer intervene with the rights of the legislature.

    The court docket has held the length of the suspension as unlawful and unconstitutional, he stated, including that the stand of the 12 MLAs used to be no longer heard via the legislature.

    The court docket has declared the answer as unlawful and unconstitutional, Shelar stated.

    It’s as a result of the state Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt’s “ego” that the legislature needed to face embarrassment within the apex court docket, the BJP MLA stated.

    To this, state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anil Parab claimed the answer has no longer been termed as unlawful and unconstitutional, however handiest the length of the suspension has been puzzled.

  • Central businesses concentrated on Opposition like ‘mafia’: Sanjay Raut on Nawab Malik’s wondering through ED

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Within the wake of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s wondering through the ED, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday alleged that central probe businesses, like a “mafia”, had been concentrated on BJP’s political warring parties who reveal falsehood.

    Speaking to newshounds right here, Raut stated the ED officers took away Malik from his house for wondering.

    “It is a problem to the Maharashtra govt. The central investigation businesses, like a mafia, are concentrated on BJP’s political warring parties who reveal falsehood. However, reality will succeed and the combat will proceed,” the Shiv Sena’s spokesperson stated.

    “This (concentrated on of people through digging previous instances) will proceed until 2024 and after that they are going to have to stand the results,” Raut stated in a veiled assault at the BJP and central businesses.

    Raut stated a couple of years in the past, former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya had filed a criticism in opposition to some leaders who’ve now joined the BJP.

    “Why summons have now not even been issued?” the Rajya Sabha member requested.

    Particularly, Somaiya had filed court cases in opposition to more than a few leaders, together with Narayan Rane who later joined the BJP and is recently a Union minister.

    “I spoke to all senior leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). I will be able to quickly reveal the central investigating businesses,” Raut stated.

    The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress had joined fingers in 2019 to shape the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt in Maharashtra led through Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday puzzled Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik in a cash laundering probe related to the actions of the Mumbai underworld, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, officers stated.

    The 62-year-old NCP chief is said to have arrived on the Enforcement Directorate administrative center in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property house round 8 AM and the company is recording his remark below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), they added.

  • Narayan Rane joined BJP after ED started probe towards him, claims Shiv Sena chief

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    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Vinayak Raut on Wednesday lashed out at Union minister Narayan Rane, claiming that the latter had joined the BJP after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) introduced an inquiry towards him.

    Talking to journalists right here, the Sena’s Lok Sabha member additionally sought to grasp what came about to quite a lot of allegations that BJP chief Kirit Somaiya had levelled towards Rane when the latter was once within the Congress birthday party.

    Rane began his political occupation in Shiv Sena and was once leader minister for not up to a yr within the Sena-BJP dispensation that dominated Maharashtra all the way through 1995-99.

    He later joined the Congress and turned into a state minister.

    A couple of years later, Rane hand over the Congress and based Maharashtra Swabhimani Birthday party (MSP) in 2018, which he later merged with the BJP.

    After becoming a member of the BJP, Rane turned into the birthday party’s Rajya Sabha member in 2019.

    He was once inducted as union minister for micro, small and medium enterprises ultimate yr.

    “Somaiya had levelled a number of allegations towards Rane, together with that of indulging in corrupt practices and accumulating unaccounted wealth. It was once adopted by means of the ED probing some shell corporations. Rane were given scared after which joined BJP,” Raut stated.

    “I’m hoping Somaiya will resubmit to the ED the proofs he had towards Rane and the officers will take motion towards Rane. We can without a doubt search ED’s reaction on it,” he stated.

    When Rane was once in Congress, he had made some remarks towards Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    However now, Rane is protecting the BJP, Raut alleged as he confirmed some outdated video pictures of Rane’s feedback towards Modi, Somaiya and BJP.

    Vinayak Raut’s remarks come an afternoon after Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut accused some BJP leaders and businessmen of being concerned with corrupt practices.

    He had introduced a private assault towards Somaiya, who has been elevating a slew of allegations towards the Sena brass and different leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi.

    On the other hand, Rane on Wednesday accused Sanjay Raut of levelling corruption allegations towards BJP leaders with out generating any documentary evidence.

  • Sanjay Raut alleges Rs 25,000 crore process rip-off all the way through Fadnavis regime, calls for probe

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    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday alleged that the BJP-led Centre is troubling Sena leaders and their members of the family and pals by means of the usage of central businesses.

    Briefing media individuals right here, Raut stated, “Central businesses are troubling our birthday celebration leaders. Power is being created on our leaders the usage of those businesses. Some BJP leaders are pronouncing that the Maha Vikas Aghadi executive will fall on March 10. These kind of rumours began when I wrote to Venkaiah Naidu.”

    Raut additional alleged that all the way through the former Devendra Fadnavis executive, there used to be the Rs 25,000 crore process recruitment rip-off that must be probed. 

    Raut also referred to as BJP chief Kirit Somaiya an “agent of the ED. “Kirit Somaiya is the mastermind in PMC financial institution rip-off. Somaiya and his son will have to be arrested in reference to the case. To whom does Nikon Infra Development corporate belong? PMC case accused Rakesh Wadhwan and Somaiya’s son are companions on this corporate,” alleged Raut.

    The Sena chief additional stated CM Uddhav Thackeray will have to start up a probe into the case by means of the Financial Offense Wing (EOW). 

    Somaiya is going to the ED workplace in Mumbai and eats Kichadi and conspires towards the Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders, Raut stated.

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    Raut attacked BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar too alleging that during his daughter’s marriage ceremony, a Rs 9 crore carpet used to be used. “Why is ED no longer probing it?” he requested.

    “I known as Union House Minister Amit Shah and informed him that he can goal me, however no longer my circle of relatives. In the event that they need to battle with us, they are able to do this however our households will have to no longer be concerned,” Raut stated, including that he’s Balasaheb Thackeray’s Sainik and no longer petrified of ED and different central businesses.

    Raut additionally alleged that some ED officials thru their brokers gathered Rs 200 crore from the builders in Mumbai. “I’ve the entire evidence and shortly, will put them earlier than the folk. The ED officials are forcing other folks to present statements towards me. The central businesses will have to paintings in an even way, and no longer as puppets within the hand of the BJP leaders,” Raut stated.

    Raut alleged BJP chief Mohit Kamboj calling him a front-man and blue-eyed boy of former leader minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnvis. “Mohit Kamboj purchased the Rs 1200 crore-worth land at Patra Chawl undertaking by means of paying best Rs 100 crore. The EOW will have to perform the inquiry in those transactions.”

    In the meantime, BJP chief Prasad Lad refuted the entire fees made by means of Sanjay Raut pronouncing that he has misplaced his psychological steadiness. Lad’s birthday celebration colleague Mohit Kamboj stated that he would record a defamation swimsuit towards Raut. Sudhir Mungantiwar additionally refuted allegations of his daughter’s marriage ceremony bills. “The entirety is in public. I’ve paid the tax or even Uddhav Thackeray had attended my daughter’s marriage ceremony rite,” Mungantiwar stated.

  • Sanjay Raut disputes PM Modi’s declare about sacking of Hridaynath Mangeshkar from AIR

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday objected to Top Minister Narendra Modi’s declare that musician Hridaynath Mangeshkar used to be sacked from the All India Radio (AIR) for presenting a poetry on freedom fighter Veer Savarkar.

    Requested by means of a reporter whether or not the PM had made the reference in view of the approaching Goa Meeting elections, Raut mentioned it’s imaginable, bearing in mind the Mangeshkar circle of relatives lines its roots to the coastal state, the place polls for the 40-member Area can be hung on February 14.

    “It’s imaginable. He is a smart high minister. It sort of feels to me that nobody changed into high minister prior to him and there can be none afterwards,” Raut mentioned ironically.

    “I admire (Modi) him so much. He is a large chief. I do not wish to touch upon him. It occurs in politics, folks say one thing, we must perceive,” the Rajya Sabha member mentioned addressing media individuals in Delhi.

    Talking within the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Modi had introduced indexed circumstances of previous Congress governments muzzling the liberty of expression, and cited Lata Mangeshkar’s musician brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar being sacked from the AIR for presenting a poetry on Savarkar.

    Raut on Thursday mentioned he has heard that music all his lifestyles at the Akashvani itself, which popularised that music. “This is a conference that an individual occupying a constitutional put up no less than must no longer lie. However I salute the high minister,” Raut mentioned in sarcastic feedback.

    The Sena chief mentioned as in keeping with his knowledge, there is not any report of Hridaynath Mangeshkar being sacked by means of the AIR.

    “If a composer is got rid of from the activity for enjoying a definite music, that music is probably not performed once more at the Akashvani for those a few years. Why would they play it? I pay attention to it even these days at the Akashvani and Doordarshan. All of us listen it. This music has a spot in our hearts,” Raut mentioned, including that he’s a devotee of Savarkar and that sentiment isn’t some drama.

    The parliamentarian additionally hit out at Modi over his declare that after folks had been following lockdown and COVID-19 norms, the Congress used to be status at railway stations in Mumbai and scaring blameless labourers into fleeing to their local states.

    “How a lot are you going to lie? No less than one chief from the Maharashtra BJP must have condemned this commentary. Is that this your love for Maharashtra?” Raut requested.

    On Modi’s reported commentary that there’s a “BJP wave” within the 5 poll-bound states (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur), Raut mentioned, “It’s nice and I want him good fortune.”

    The Rajya Sabha member additionally centered Maharashtra BJP leader Chandrakant Patil over his contemporary declare that the celebration will go back to energy within the state after March 10, after result of the Meeting polls in 5 states are out.

    “I want them good fortune. A brand new date has been given. Those folks will have to be baillif in some court docket which is why they get puzzled about dates,” he mentioned, taking a jibe on the BJP.

    Maharashtra is at the moment being ruled by means of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress.

    Raut, who had claimed he used to be presented to help in “toppling” the MVA executive, with out naming any person, asserted that the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra is not going to bow down prior to any “Tom, Dick and Harry”.

    He additionally claimed that the Shiv Sena is being thru central companies “out of concern” stemming from the celebration’s efforts excited by increasing its base outdoor Maharashtra.

    “We’re contesting 15 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. We’re going to contest in Gujarat and different states. Once we speak about this, those monsters (central companies) are unleashed after us. However, those that are Hindutvavadis will know monsters are killed,” he added.

    To any other query, Raut mentioned Mumbai may no longer be separated from Maharashtra on account of the Shiv Sena.

    Efforts are nonetheless on “to grasp the town”, he claimed, including that the Uddhav Thackeray-led celebration is not going to allow them to prevail.