Devendra Fadnavis alleges corruption in COVID-19 management in Maharashtra

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday alleged corruption in the measures taken by the Shiv Senaled Maharashtra government in handling the COVID19 situation in the stateSpeaking in the Legislative Assembly the Leader of the Opposition also referred to a Central survey and said the number of COVID19 deaths in Maharashtra could have been lesser by 30900 and the cases by 955 lakh had the state government handled the situation properlyMaharashtras caseload is 2161467 and the fatality count is 52184 as on March 1 as per state Health departmentLaunching a broadside against the state government on various issues Fadnavis wondered why an FIR was not registered in connection with the death of a Punebased woman and accused the government of pressuring the policeThe death of the 23yearold woman has triggered a huge political row in the state with the BJP alleging the link of Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Rathod to the incident Rathod resigned as Forest minister on Sunday but denied all allegations against himFadnavis also demanded suspension of a police inspector who is investigating the caseHe said the condition of law and order in the state is not worth talkingFadnavis a former chief minister said 12 audio clips are available in connection with the womans death but the police have not taken any action so farDespite these proofs the police are not acting I demand that the police inspector concerned be immediately suspended We are proud of Maharashtra Police but police never accepted such helplessnessSuch pressure of then government on the policeyou government dont evenregister an FIR in the case despite having details of the incident he allegedOn Shiv Sena MLA Sunil Prabhus suggestion that Fadnavis should also speak about Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkars alleged suicide case the BJP leader said that case too definitely should be talked aboutOn Sunday Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said he will request Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to direct the authorities in Dadra and Nagar Haveli to cooperate with Mumbai police in the probe in Delkars deathDelkar seventerm MP from the Union Territory was found dead in a south Mumbai hotel room on February 22 A suicide note in Gujarati was also found at the spotFadnavis also attacked the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government of the Sena NCP and Congress over the speech delivered by former AMU student leader Sharjeel Usmani at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune in January this yearHe said the government should feel ashamed that Usmani came to Maharashtra and allegedly made objectionable comments about HindusFadnavis read out Usmanis reported comments in the House and asked Is this the condition of Hindus Can they be talked about like thisHe also hit out at state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh who had said that Usmani will be arrested from wherever he isYou sounded a bugle saying he Usmani will be traced from wherever he is He Usmani said it delivered the speech under your watch Not only that the organisers of the Elgar Parishad too defended Sharjeels comments You government should feel ashamed if Hindus are talked aboutlike this Fadnavis saidThe BJP leader said an outfit Sikhs for Justice recently wrote a letter to chief ministers of Maharashtra and West Bengal allegedly asking them to declare independence of the two statesSuch outfits need not be entertained he addedAlleging corruption in the measures initiated by the state government in handling the pandemic situation the former CM alleged that a racket recently came to light in Amravati district in Vidarbha region wherein a person was declared infected by coronavirus despite testing negativeIn Navi Mumbai 7800 individuals were shown COVID19 positive without conducting any tests he allegedFadnavis reiterated that the state has consistently been conducting less COVID19 testsThere was corruption even during the COVID19 period he allegedCriticising the government over the Aarey metro car shed issue Fadnavis said the MVA government should not delay the project and not do injustice to the people of MumbaiHe said it was serious that the state government had denied permission to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to use its plane earlier last month when the latter was scheduled to travel to Dehradun in UttarakhandThere were differences between the Governors and governments in the past too But no previous government showed this narrowmindedness Denying permission to use the government plane to the governor was very serious he addedIn view of the denial of permission Koshyari had to take a commercial flight to travel to Dehradun at the last momentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever