BY SANJEEB KUMAR SAHOO
Before I talk about Ajit Pawar, his son Parth Pawar, Eknath Shinde, and his party’s member Sanjay Shirsa, I would like to say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi always talks about opposition party leaders being involved in crores of corruption at his rallies and whenever he has a chance to speak out against it. But he never talks about how the BJP-led NDA alliance partners are involved in crores of corruption. Why? This is a million-dollar question.
Now let’s get to the point: neither the central government nor the state government has taken strong action against the Rs. 5,000 crore land scam allegations against Sanjay Shirsat, who is a leading Shiv Sena member (Sanjay Shirsat is a member of #ShivSena, which is led by Eknath Shinde) and the Maharashtra Social Justice Minister, nor against Sanjay Shirsat’s son, Siddhant Shirsat (tender process for the sale of Hotel VITS in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), even though the media reported on the father-son scam in #July of this year.
Following the land scam involving a member from Eknath Shinde’s faction, the people of India now know about another land scam involving BJP alliance partner NCP’s chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth Pawar, and his relative, Digvijaysinh Patil.
The media reported that Parth Pawar and his relative Digvijaysinh Patil bought 40 acres of land for Rs 300 crore when it was worth Rs 1,800 crore on the market. The land, known as MaharVatan, was originally intended for Dalit landless farmers.
Even a four-year-old child understands what is wrong and right. So it’s laughable and not digestible when it comes to crores of land deals, as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar claimed that his son Parth was unaware that the land purchased by his company in Pune belonged to the government. Can Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, say that his son Parth didn’t know that the land his company bought in Pune belonged to the government while using a lie detector machine?
Given my understanding of politicians and their statements, you can trust me when I say that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar would never claim, even under a lie detector, that his son Parth was unaware that the land bought by his firm in Pune was government property.
Interestingly, whenever any corruption occurred in Maharashtra involving the BJP alliance’s partners, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis formed an inquiry committee to investigate the allegations of graft and irregularities, as in #July this year he formed a high-level inquiry committee to investigate the allegations against Social Justice Minister and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat’s son, Siddhant Shirsat, into the tender process for the sale of Hotel VITS in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, which involved a company owned by Social Justice Minister and Shiv Sena leader Siddhant Shirsat.
.So, once again, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis used the same #formula to keep the matter #silent, as Devendra Fadnavis formed an inquiry committee to investigate allegations of graft and irregularities in a Pune land deal involving a company linked to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar.
To wrap up, I want to say that I strongly agree with the opposition parties when they say that the way Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is defending Ajit Pawar and his son shows that the government wants to hide the scam rather than doing a proper investigation.
