BJP "running a gang": Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut
The Hindu
Alleging BJP is “running a gang”, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said the saffron party is trying to break Nationalist Congress Party by using ED and CBI.
Alleging BJP is "running a gang", Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said the saffron party is trying to break Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) by using Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr. Raut's remarks came after a Maharashtra court here on Tuesday rejected an anticipatory bail application filed by former Maharashtra minister Hasan Mushrif in an alleged money laundering case being probed by the ED. However, on Thursday, the Bombay High Court extended his interim protection from arrest till April 27.
"When they (BJP) cannot bring Vijay Mallya back how will they bring black money? This is the failure of the government, they only make big promises but no result comes out...Arvind Kejriwal receives CBI notice. They (BJP) are trying to break NCP by using ED and CBI...Is this a government? They are running a gang," Mr. Raut said while talking to media persons here.
In a major development in the Delhi excise policy case, the CBI has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before the central agency on April 16. AAP leaders had said that Mr. Kejriwal will appear before CBI for questioning. Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, a key aide of Mr. Kejriwal, is already in jail over alleged irregularities in the excise policy case.
On Friday, reacting to the gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed's son Asad's encounter, Sanjay Raut said that maximum number of encounters have happened in Mumbai.
"The maximum number of encounters have happened in Mumbai. They were given the title of encounter specialists, but almost all of them went to jail. Some people in Mumbai went to court with evidence against such encounters. Then after an investigation, many encounter specialists were jailed," Rajya Sabha MP had said on the encounter.
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