Congress Targets Uddhav Thackeray Over Elgar Parishad Case Transfer
The Congress is likely one of the ruling constituents within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi
Mumbai:
Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday stated Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s resolution to permit the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) to take over the Elgar Parishad case was once “now not truthful”.
Mr Kharge’s feedback got here two days after Further Leader Secretary (House) Sanjay Kumar stated on Thursday that “the state house division has no objection to the case being entrusted to the NIA”, and an afternoon after NCP president Sharad Pawar criticised the Leader Minister over the problem.
The Congress is likely one of the ruling constituents within the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive, additionally comprising the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP).
“We’re companions. Such issues must be mentioned. This is not truthful. Energy must be used judiciously,” Mr Kharge, the AICC basic secretary in-charge of Maharashtra, instructed newshounds.
The Maharashtra executive’s surprising resolution to permit the NIA to take over the probe from Pune Police after to begin with opposing it led to a flutter within the coalition executive, with state House Minister Anil Deshmukh of the NCP pronouncing on Thursday that the executive minister had “overruled” him within the topic.
The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered on the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed had prompted violence close to the Koregaon-Bhima struggle memorial within the district day after today.
The Pune police have claimed the conclave was once subsidized via Maoists.
All the way through the probe into the police, the Pune police arrested Left-leaning activists Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao for alleged Maoist hyperlinks.
