Mumbai: The Shiv Sena will have a show of strength on January 5 when the celebration MP Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut will seem prior to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the PMC Bank scam. Shiv Sainiks from Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayander are anticipated to mobilize in big numbers on that day at the ED’s workplace situated at Ballard Estate in South Mumbai.
Although there has not been any formal announcement from the ruling Shiv Sena, which heads the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, senior celebration leaders have sent verbal messages for mobilisation at the ED’s workplace on Monday. Raut had currently announced that if BJP will go on applying Central investigating agencies against political opponents, Shiv Sena will give a befitting reply in its personal style.
A Shiv Sena legislator, who is in continuous communication with the Shakhas, stated Sainiks are agitated more than the manner in which BJP has been targeting the celebration and misusing the central investigating agencies. “It is like a Sharad Pawar moment. When ED in September final year had named Pawar in a cash-laundering case in connection with a scam at Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank, the Pawar had stated he will stop by the ED workplace even although it has not summoned him however. Pawar’s aggressive posture forced the Fadnavis government to send the Police Commissioner to the former’s residence. Citing law and order troubles, Pawar cancelled his stop by. On Monday, the celebration will send a sturdy message to BJP that it was not deterred by such politically motivated moves.’’
Another Sena legislator stated that the celebration will also expose how the BJP-led government at the Centre was abusing the investigative machinery. He reminded that the celebration has alleged that the ED’s notice to Varsha Raut and also to Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik was a conspiracy by the central government to overthrow the state government.
Raut and a couple of celebration leaders like Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray have slammed BJP and also attacked the misuse of ED for vendetta politics. ED had currently summoned the celebration legislator Pratap Sarnaik and his sons in connection with in connection with an alleged cash laundering case associated to a private firm.
ED on Friday attached properties worth Rs 72 crore of businessman Pravin Raut in the HDIL-PMC Bank cash laundering case and stated Rs 55 lakh of the tainted cash was transferred to Varsha Raut by means of Pravin Raut’s wife Madhuri.
According to ED, investigation revealed that Pravin Raut paid Rs 1.6 crore to his wife Madhuri from the proceeds of the crime. Out of that cash, Madhuri transferred Rs 55 lakh as interest free of charge loan to Varsha Raut. The quantity was used to buy a flat at Dadar (east).