One of its major allies both at the Centre and Maharashtra, NCP on Monday backed Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s pitch for reconsideration of the State Government’s decision rejecting a judicial panel’s report on Adarsh scam.
“We will support any decision to review the State cabinet’s decision. The decision to reject the report was apparently taken in a haste....It was not proper to reject the commission’s report. There is a need to review it,” Union Minister and NCP MP Tariq Anwar said. Two NCP Ministers too have been named in the Adarsh panel report.
Noting that the Congress high command has instructed its leadership in the State to review the decision, Anwar said “it’s a right decision (to review the report). The line taken by the Congress is very correct that it should be reconsidered.” Anwar also recalled that Maharashtra Chief Minister too has stated that he will consult his cabinet colleagues on the matter.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi too has indicated that the Maharashtra Government would reconsider its decision to reject the judicial commission’s report on Adarsh housing scam which had indicted some senior Congress leaders, including three former Chief Ministers. Gandhi had said, “That has been decided....And I think it is going to be resolved.”
Disapproving of the Maharashtra Government’s decision to reject the report, Rahul last week said that he was of his personal opinion that he do not agree with that decision and Maharashtra Government should reconsider that. Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan was present at Rahul’s side when he expressed this and later Chavan had to respond that he will decide with the cabinet on this.
The report of the two-member commission headed by retired high court judge JA Patil has indicted several politicians including three former Chief Ministers for “blatant violations” of statutory provisions in the Adarsh housing project. On December 20, the Maharashtra Government had rejected the report.