Sanjay Raut said on the use of ED – tomorrow what will happen to people if they come out on the road against the Center and the investigating agencies
Mumbai
oi-Sagar Bhardwaj
Mumbai, March 24. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday alleged that the Governor and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were only targeting the governments of Maharashtra and West Bengal. He said that all this is happening at the behest of the Centre. They cannot suppress the sentiments of Maharashtra and Shiv Sena by using central investigative agencies to intimidate us, he said. We will expose their politics of vendetta across the state. Suppressing our voice is an insult to Maharashtra. If tomorrow people take to the streets against the central government, what will happen to the central agencies and their helpers?
Talking to reporters, the Shiv Sena MP said that other states also have governors, but they are not targeting BJP ruled states. Earlier this week, the ED attached assets worth Rs 6.45 crore of a company owned by Shridhar Patankar, brother-in-law of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, in connection with a money laundering probe. The Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government has also clashed with Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on several occasions. In West Bengal too, relations between the Trinamool Congress government and the governor are often tense.
Raut further said that Maharashtra’s home ministry has a great tradition and it will never retaliate against anyone unlike central agencies. Asked about a temple management in Karnataka’s Udupi district deciding not to allow ‘people of other religions’ to trade on their land during an annual festival at the request of some pro-Hindu organisations, Raut said Said that such action would create a situation which was there before partition.
