MVA is most corrupt govt in Maharashtra's history, extortion its only agenda: Fadnavis

Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday hit out at the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying the Shiv Senaled Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government was the most corrupt in the history of the state with extortion being its only agendaThe former chief minister alleged that the MVA government came to power by indulging in dishonesty and claimed that the BJP is the number one party in the stateHe made the statements a day after Thackeray who is also the president of the Shiv Sena launched a noholdsbarred attack on the BJP during the Senas annual Dussehra rally hereThackerays speech reflected his frustration You may try to defame the BJP but the party is firmly groundedYou should remember that the BJP is the number one party in the state Fadnavis told reporters hereAlso Read Bring down my govt without using agencies like CBI and ED Uddhav Thackeray to BJPYou are saying that the people rejected the BJP but in fact they rejected the NCPCongress and promoted you Shiv Sena Out of the seats that we fought together in the 2019 Assembly polls the BJP had won nearly 70 per cent seats and the Shiv Sena had won 45 per cent seats Hence you indulged in dishonesty with the peoples vote and came to power he saidThe BJP and the Shiv Sena had parted ways after the 2019 Assembly polls over the issue of chief ministers post The Thackerayled party later joined hands with the NCP and the Congress to form the government In that election the BJP had won 105 seats followed by the Sena 56 the NCP 54 and the Congress 48 in the 288member HouseThis is a government formed through dishonesty and I feel that respected Uddhavji should now accept that he had ambitions of becoming a chief minister which he fulfilled In politics having ambitions is not wrong But if you wanted to keep the word you could have made senior Sena leaders Diwakar Raote Subhash Desai or Eknath Shinde a CM Fadnavis saidIn the past Thackeray had said several times that he had made a promise to his late father Bal Thackeray to install a Shiv sainik party worker as chief minister of MaharashtraIf you really did not want to become a CM then why Narayan Rane had to leave Shiv Sena Rane did not want to become the party chief Also why Raj Thackeray had to leave Shiv Sena Fadnavis askedIt is alright if you had ambitions of becoming chief minister but now please stop blaming us the BJP leader saidOver Thackerays allegation that central agencies like ED and CBI were being misused Fadnavis claimed These agencies were working on the orders of the high court and the reason for that is the government headed by you is the most corrupt in the history of MaharashtraYou should keep in mind that it would be recorded in the history of Maharashtra that this is most corrupt government in the history of the state There is only one agenda of this government which is extortion he allegedFadnavis further said the Income Tax Departments raids have revealed that there was rampant corruption in the stateThe dalali middlemanship has reached to such level that some ministers have even got extortion softwares created to know how much money is to be extorted from whom If such things are going on then it is natural that EDCBI will come to the state he claimedFadnavis said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi never lets these agencies get misusedThe prime minister never interferes in the work of these agencies and never uses it for political gains he addedHad these agencies been misused then half of the total number of your ministers would have been in jail But we believe in democracy and will not misuse these agencies The previous governments led by Congress and its allies used to misuse these agencies One thing is certain that Modiji wont relax unless he completely roots out corrpution Fadnavis saidDuring his Dussehra speech Thackeray urged Sena workers and people of Maharashtra to emulate the example of Mamata Banerjeeled West Bengal which stood up to the BJPReferring to it the BJP leader asked Thackeray Why do you want to turn Maharashtra into that state WB where no industry could flourish because of union activities and extortion Where people are beaten up and hanged for speaking against you Do you want to build such Maharashtra But the BJP will never let Maharashtra turn into Bengal it will remain as MaharashtraFadnavis said that Thackeray in his speech raised question over the Centrestate relationship and federal structure and talked about the Constitution framed by Dr Babasaheb AmbedkarThe Constitution made by Dr Ambedkar will never change and no one can do it Hence this agenda of changing the Constitution taking along some Communists and Left ideology parties we will never let it happen he assertedTo a query on Thackerays statement in which he dared the BJP to topple his government Fadnavis said the if the government has to fall he would not even knowI only want to say that we are not interested in that We are interested in the issues concerning people Why do you always say topple the government You should rather solve the issues faced by people show your work show how you can help farmers show you can run the government he saidOn Thackerays statement about the NCBs raids Fadnavis said he should decide on whose side he was whether on the side of drugs suppliers and consumers or on the side of those acting against the drug peddlersThis 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