Devendra Fadnavis

The Congress in Maharashtra has targeted Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over a video featuring him and his banker-singer wife Amruta and sought to know if the state government had any links with its producers. Expressing "surprise" over the video, in which Fadnavis is seen swaying along with his wife to a song that calls for support to save Mumbai's rivers, the opposition party asked him a series of questions. "Fadnavis should clarify if the government has links with T Series, the company which made the video or if the chief minister has family relations with it," Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) spokesperson Sachin Sawant said.

"If the government is not associated with this video, Fadnavis should clarify what procedure was applied to select the company for making the video," Sawant said in a statement. "He should also let us know who gave instructions for government officers to feature in the video and for use of the CM's official residence Varsha for shooting it," he said, reacting to the video that has become popular on social media. As the newly-released video went viral on social media platform, the opposition AAP had slammed Fadnavis and his wife, and called the clip "terrible and shocking". However, a CMO official told PTI, "This is a social cause and a private initiative. Not a single rupee of the Maharashtra government has been spent in making the video."