Mumbai:
Maharashtra Forest Minister Sanjay Rathod has resigned from his publish after the opposition BJP linked him to a 23-year-old lady’s alleged loss of life by suicide in Pune.
“I’ve submitted my resignation to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Since I’ve been accused of being linked to the lady’s loss of life, I used to be maligned, I do not suppose I ought to proceed on this publish…I’ll attraction (to the authorities) {that a} swift investigation needs to be carried out on this matter in order that reality comes out,” he stated.
The lady, Pooja Chavan, native of Maharashtra’s Beed district, had been residing in Pune together with her brother and his associates to pursue an English-speaking course. The police had stated the lady allegedly died by suicide on February 8.
Two days after her loss of life, an audio clip surfaced on social media during which two males are speaking in regards to the lady’s loss of life. The BJP claims one of many males within the audio clip is Mr Rathod.
Mr Rathod has denied the cost.
The BJP had been demanding his resignation from the publish.
“Minister with critical allegations in Pooja Chavan suicide case ought to resign! The BJP protested in opposition to this by burning a statue of Sanjay Rathore in Beed district,” BJP Maharashtra tweeted final week.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had additionally hit out on the Maharashtra authorities over the loss of life.
“There may be ample proof in opposition to Sanjay Rathod however nothing is going on. If media experiences had not come out then nothing would have occurred. Are we heading in the direction of a banana republic? The police are beneath stress. First, there must be an investigation on the police itself,” Mr Fadnavis stated final week.
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