NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the backdrop of central agencies intensifying investigation against leaders of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi.
Pawar was closeted with Modi at the Prime Minister’s Office in Parliament for nearly 20 minutes. The meeting comes on a day when the CBI took custody of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh.
Deshmukh was taken into custody by the CBI team from the Arthur Road Prison in Central Mumbai and placed under arrest in connection with corruption allegations raised against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
The meeting also comes a day after the Enforcement Directorate attached assets worth more than Rs 11.15 crore of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s wife and two of his associates in a money-laundering investigation linked to certain land deals.
The NCP chief’s nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said the two may might have discussed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the delay in the appointment of 12 members to the state Legislative Council from the Governor’s quota.
Asked by reporters in Ahmednagar about the meeting, Ajit Pawar said he had no information about it, but the country’s prime minister and the national president of a party “can meet over developmental works”.
“We had told Pawar saheb recently that the Maharashtra government has requested the Governor several times to nominate 12 MLCs (Members of Legislative Council)….we had requested him (Pawar) to speak about it in Delhi. He might have met (the prime minister) over that issue,” he said.
Water Resources Minister and Maharashtra NCP chief Jayant Patil too said the issue could have come up in the meeting. “Such a delay on the part of the governor was never seen in Maharashtra…so we had requested Pawar saheb to bring this to notice at the highest levels…he might have met the prime minister to raise that issue,” Patil told reporters in Mumbai.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari is yet to appoint 12 members to the Upper House of the state legislature from his quota despite the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government sending him a list of recommendations more than a year ago.
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