Farmer leader challenges BJP leader to expose irregularities in Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank
Farmer leader and Swabhimani Shetkari Sangathan chief Raju Shetty has accused Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya of targeting the leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government with ‘political malice’, instead of using them for corruption. Really interested in uncovering.
Condemning Mr. Somaiya’s portrayal as an unbiased anti-corruption, Mr. Shetty has accused the BJP leader of irregularities in the Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank (MDCCB) headed by Mr. Somaiya’s party colleague Pravin Darekar, Leader of the Opposition of the BJP. challenged to uncover. Maharashtra Legislative Council.
The MVA government on Thursday launched an inquiry against MDCCB for alleged irregularities in the last five years. The move came as a retaliation against the BJP after Mr Somaiya recently accused Maharashtra minister and senior NCP leader Hassan Mushrif and his family members in the ₹127 crore money laundering scam as well as irregularities of ₹100. being seen. crore in a cooperative sugar factory owned by the latter.
“It appears that Mr. Somaiya is selective in ‘revealing’ corruption. They are designed to target leaders of particular parties only. If he has guts, why doesn’t the MDCCB blow the whistle on the matter,” said two from Kolhapur district. Shree Shetty, who was a bar MP, said.
At the same time, he also took on the MVA administration, rebuking Mr Thackeray’s government for failing to provide compensation to the victims of the recent floods that devastated Konkan and western Maharashtra.
Mr Shetty had severed ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in August 2017 and became a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi and Devendra Fadnavis governments at the Center and in the state.
Ahead of the 2019 parliamentary election, Mr Shetty had supported Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Congress. But the new alliance proved costly with Mr Shetty’s seemingly certain hold on Katkanangale by the Shiv Sena’s patient Mane, who defeated him to snatch the crucial constituency in Kolhapur.
Since then, he has focused on farmer issues, reserving his condemnation for both the ruling MVA and the opposition BJP.
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