Maharashtra Cabinet: Sanjay Rathod’s Entry Leads To Friction As BJP Cites Suicide Case

    214


    Legislator from Digras in Yavatmal, Sanjay Rathod was accused in girl’s suicide in Pune..

    Mumbai:

    Inclusion of Sanjay Rathod — a insurgent Sena legislator as soon as accused of abetting a TikTok star’s suicide — within the Maharashtra cupboard is inflicting the primary little bit of public friction in Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s alliance with the BJP. 

    The set off is a tweet by Chitra Wagh, vice-chief of the BJP’s state unit, but it surely was Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who’d led the get together’s cost towards Mr Rathod as Chief of Opposition not way back. 

    Mr Rathod, who was Forest Minister in Uddhav Thackeray’s cupboard, needed to resign because of the case.

    Eknath Shinde has defended together with him now: “He is been given the clear chit by police after investigation through the earlier authorities. That is why we’ve got made him a minister. We are going to converse to anybody who has an objection.” 

    He was reacting to Ms Wagh’s tweet and video, by which she stated, “It is extremely unlucky that Sanjay Rathod, who brought on the demise of Maharashtra’s daughter Pooja Chavan, has been given the submit of minister once more… I’ll proceed my combat towards him.” 

    An older tweet goes viral too — this one a video by BJP’s Kirit Somaiyya from final 12 months when he stated the suicide was actually “a homicide” by Sanjay Rathod. Mr Somaiyya, who was on the cupboard’s oath-taking perform as we speak, has not reacted to allegations of hypocrisy.

    Sanjay Rathod is the legislator from Digras constituency in Yavatmal. There have been allegations that he was in a relationship with the girl that went dangerous, resulting in her demise by suicide.

    He was cleared, nevertheless, by a particular investigation staff fashioned by the Yavatmal Superintendent of Police Dilip Patil Bhujbal in August final 12 months.

    Within the Sena mutiny that unseated that alliance, Mr Rathod was one of many MLAs who sided with Workforce Shinde, breaking apart the Shiv Sena and “resuming a pure alliance” with the BJP. Mr Shinde had cited the “clear chit” final month too — barely every week after taking cost — amid speculations that Sanjay Rathod would get a cupboard spot.

    Right now, Mr Rathod was certainly one of 18 MLAs sworn in at a grand ceremony in Mumbai as the cupboard was lastly expanded past the Shinde-Fadnavis duo. Chief Minister Shinde met MLAs of his camp forward of the ceremony. He’s backed by 40 of the 55 Shiv Sena MLAs.

    The growth got here greater than six weeks after a rebel by the Shinde faction introduced down the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities. Opposition had criticised the delay. 

    Within the run-up to the growth, there have been a number of conferences between Mr Shinde and the BJP management as he flew all the way down to Delhi to debate the names with Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah and others.


    Discover more from News Journals

    Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.