Fadnavis says he knew of threatening letter to then Governor from MVA leaders on Legislative Council appointments

In a recent interview, former Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari alleged that he was being browbeaten by the MVA leaders and that he had refused to yield to such behaviour

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis said he had knowledge of erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government leaders having allegedly written a “threatening” letter to former Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over the pending nominations to the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC).

“As per my information, MVA leaders had visited the Raj Bhavan and had met [former] Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. Mr. Koshyari later told me that the MVA leaders had written him a letter with a threatening tone. He had even asked them to re-submit a fresh letter but due to their [MVA leaders’] egos, they refused to do it,” Mr. Fadnavis said, speaking to reporters in Pune on Tuesday.

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Mr. Fadnavis further disclosed that the letter that Mr. Koshyari was alluding to was written by Mr. Thackeray and not Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, currently the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly.

The Deputy CM’s reaction came a day after Mr. Koshyari, in an interview to a vernacular TV channel, justified his stand to sit on the nominations of 12 MLC members to be elected under the Governor’s quota during the MVA regime.

In the interview, the former Governor alleged that he was being browbeaten by the MVA leaders and that he had refused to yield to such behaviour.

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