MUMBAI: Urging CM along with Shiv Sena main Uddhav Thackeray to join hands with the BJP before their civic polls in Mumbai, Thane and eight different towns, celebration MLA and spokesperson Pratap Sarnaik alleged that MVA spouses, Congress and NCP, were poaching Sena cadres and threatening the celebration.
“Although we’re in power from the country, I don’t get assistance from government agencies or some other leader inside the party.
My loved ones and I have been fighting a legal battle for the past seven weeks,” he wrote in a letter to the CM.
Sarnaik said linking hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi would likewise be advantageous to leaders like him that are”facing harassment because of instances being foisted on them by central agencies”.
By June, Sarnaik’s son has been married into BJP MLA Ranjeet Patil’s daughter.
There’s speculation that segments from the BJP could have put strain on Sarnaik to compose the letter into the CM.
Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya lashed out in Sarnaik, stating”he’s afraid of going to prison” due to his involvement in corruption.
“All Of’ghotalebaj’,’ Sarnaik, Parab, Waikar.
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Will need to become guests in prison,” explained Somaiya.
The BJP leader also lodged a complaint in Thane’s Vartak Nagar police station about Sarnaik missing for the previous 100 days.
Significantly, the correspondence had been delivered into the CM on June 9, the identical day the Sena MLA along with also his sons Vihang and Purvesh filed a petition in the Bombay HC trying to protection against an order to control the ED from exploring them at the National Spot Exchange Limited money laundering case.
Shiv Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut stated that this is a non-issue.
“The only significant thing raised in the correspondence was ‘being harassed’.
When a letter is composed over offender, then the focus must be about which was the unnecessary offender, and that, why and to whom that the offender has been meted out ,” Raut stated.
Reacting to Sarnaik’s correspondence, say BJP leader Chandrakant Patil said that his party will soon think about a tie-up when Uddhav creates a statement very similar to Sarnaik’s.
“After all, BJP wasn’t for breaking up the alliance with Sena,” Patil said.
State Congress leader Nana Patole, who’d stated that the federal party would contest that the next assembly polls independently, decided not to respond to Sarnaik’s correspondence, stating it had been the Sena’s inner issue.
On Saturdaythe CM had criticised Patole’s”election-to-election” mindset,” stating it is not the opportunity to gratify electoral politics contemplating the challenges posed by the outbreak.