In no mood to let go the Eknath Shinde dispensation off the hook in the Facebook live murder case, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Saturday once again rooted for the dismissal of the BJP-led MahaYuti government and imposition of President’s Rule in Maharashtra.
While former chief minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray flagged the issue at a news conference, a delegation of the Congress AND Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) called on Governor Ramesh Bais and submitted a memorandum to the effect, seeking imposition of the President’s rule in the state.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead during a Facebook live interaction with people at Borivli (West) in north Mumbai on February 18.
In his interaction with the media, Uddhav raised serious doubts into the events leading to the killing of his party colleague Ghosalkar and charged that the MahaYuti had miserably failed to govern Maharashtra effectively. “ “This government must go.. The Shinde government should be dismissed forthwith and President’s Rule should be imposed to facilitate fresh Assembly elections in the state,” the Sena (UBT) chief said, while alluding to the much-publicised photographs of shady characters with Shinde, former Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ wife Amruta Fadnavis and other leaders.