Defending its Minister Anil Parab over an allegation by incarcerated police officer Sachin Vaze that the Minister had asked him to collect Rs 50 crore to close a preliminary inquiry, the Shiv Sena on Thursday charged that a “new letter writing trend” had started in Maharashtra to “defame” and “destabilise” the MVA Government.
In his first reaction to the “letter bomb” hurled by Vaze on the MVA Government, Shiv Sena MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut charged that “a new letter writing trend” had started in the State to destabilise the MVA Government by writing letters from behind the bars.
Indirectly accusing the Opposition BJP to destabilise the MVA government using the recent developments involving the twin cases of SUV planting and the alleged Mansukh Hiran and also State Home Anil Deshmukh’s resignation, Raut said: “There has been an attempt to destabilise the MVA government right from the day one. The real face of those trying to destabilise our government is coming out now. They are setting a new trend by enlisting those behind the bars to write letters and create an atmosphere against our government. We have never this kind of cheap in pour state or anywhere in the country so far”.
Alluding to Vaze’s allegation that Sena’s Transport Minister Anil Parab had asked to demand Rs 50 crore to close a preliminary inquiry against Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT) and also charges against former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and deputy chief minister, Raut said: “The names of Parab, Deshmukh and Ajit Pawar have come in a letter written b y Vaze. An attempt is being made to project a letter written by an accused behind the bars as proof of irregularity by the ministers. This is nothing bout political conspiracy”.
“I have known Anil Parab for a long time. He does not do such things as is being alleged by Vaze. No Shiv Sainik, who has taken oath in the name of late Balasaheb Thackeray, will indulge in these kind of things. Having the oath of late Balasaheb, Anil Parab has dismissed Vaze’s allegation as false. I have full faith in Anil Parab,” Rautr said.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab said: “ For the past two days, BJP workers had gone to town saying Anil Parab's name would surface and he would have to resign. How did they know Sachin Waze will submit a letter to the NIA court ? It's clear that there's a plan to defame Maharashtra Ministers”
It may be recalled that in a four-page hand written letter to the Special Judge of the NIA court on Wednesday, Vaze – who is currently in the central investigating agency’s custody in the tywin SUV planting and alleged Manshukh Hiran murder cases – had claimed that Parab had called him July-August, 2020 to his official bungalow and look into a complaint concerning the Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT), which was under preliminary enquiry and asked him to bring the SBUT trustees to him for negotiations about the enquiry.
“He ( Parab) also insisted to initiate primary talks to get Rs.50 crore from the SBUT in order to close the said enquiry. I had expressed my inability to do any such things as I do not know anyone from the SBUT and also I did not have any control over the enquiry,” Vaze contended in his letter to the NIA court.