The Maharashtra state legislature witnessed tumultuous scenes as the opposition MVA accused CM Eknath Shinde of corruption and demanded his immediate resignation.
Updated – Tuesday, December 20 at 06:26pm
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MLA Aaditya Thackeray and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) MLA held a protest against the state government on the sidelines of the Maharashtra State Assembly winter session in Nagpur on Tuesday. (Ani Photo)
Nagpur: The Maharashtra state assembly witnessed rowdy scenes on Tuesday as the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) accused Chief Minister Eknath Shinde of corruption and demanded his immediate resignation.
Senior leaders including Shiv Sena-UBT chairman Uddhav Thackeray, Congress party chairman Nana Patole, Nationalist Congress party chairman Jayant Patole, opposition leader Ajit Pawar (Parliament) and Ambadas Danve (council) joined the chorus calling for Shinde to step down.
They point out that when Shinde was urban development minister, he had handed over prime Nagpur land plots worth around Rs 100 crore to some builders for a one-time use of just Rs 2 crore for the poor and slum dwellers. Tens of millions of housing.
The MVA said the matter had suddenly taken on importance after the Bombay High Court ordered the status quo on the project as many leaders and lawmakers demonstrated and held up slogans on the steps of the legislature.
“The chief minister has no right to continue for even a minute and must quit immediately. How can he sit still with such a big land scam? During the MVA government, then ministers such as Anil Deshmukh and Sanjay Rathore resigned immediately after the allegations were quelled,” Patole said.
In a major setback, the HC challenged Shinde’s order, when he was the relevant minister in the former MVA regime, directing the Nagpur Improvement Trust to hand over almost 5 acres of land to 16 private builders in April 2021, even though the matter was Divisional trial.
Instructing the state government to file a reply and maintain the status quo, the matter will be further considered by the court on January 4.
MVA leaders including Congress legislature party leader Balasaheb Thorat, Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj Chavan, ChhaganA Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil, Aditya Thackeray, Anil Parab and others met earlier on Tuesday to formulate a resolution on the issue. common strategy.
Chants of “50 khokhe, absolutely no problem” (slang for 50 crore rupees) echoed in the legislature building the next day, embarrassing the ruling coalition government for the past six months, slamming the BJP for insulting a national icon , as well as expressing solidarity with the Marathi-speaking people in the Maharashtra-Karnataka border villages.
