Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis (R) and state Congress President Harshavardhan Sapkal.
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Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress chief Harshavardhan Sapkal has leveled serious charges against the ruling dispensation and alleged that the police have placed him under surveillance and a policeman even entered his bedroom.
Sapkal, a former MLA, who hails from Buldhana, stays at the Sarvodaya Ashram in Nana Chowk in Mumbai.
Sapkal also hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is also the state Home Minister.
“This morning, a plainclothes policeman directly entered my bedroom to conduct surveillance and questioning. This has happened for the third time. On whose orders are we being watched?” Sapkal asked.
Speaking to reporters at Tilak Bhavan, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters in Mumbai, Sapkal said: “In the morning, a policeman entered my bedroom and began inspecting and questioning me — asking if I was going to hold a press conference and whether journalists had arrived. When I asked why he entered my room and on whose orders, he said it was under senior officers’ instructions and asked me to talk to them on the phone.”
Sapkal alleged that opposition leaders are being spied upon in this manner.
"Are these actions being carried out on the orders of Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis?…This is part of BJP’s tendency to monitor its opponents — first Pegasus, then phone tapping, and now they’ve reached our bedrooms. But we will not bow down to such intimidation,” he said.