Maharashtra CM seeks help from PM, HM in investigation of Delkar's suicide

Nearly a week after Dadra and Nagar Haveli MP Mohan Delkar ended his life in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday sought the help of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in case Mumbai Police need to go to the Union Territory for investigations.

Thackeray, however, refused to speak anything on the investigations that have been carried out in the case.

“I will request the Prime Minister and Home Minister to extend help in case Mumbai Police needs to go to the Union Territory and carry out investigations,” Thackeray said.

Delker might have thought that Thackeray and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar would get his grievances investigated, he felt.

“An MP ends his life by suicide...he writes 14 to 16 pages,” Thackeray said expressing concern that a seven-time MP dies by suicide because of harassment. "This is serious," he said.

The Shiv Sena has questioned the silence of people who raised hue and cry after the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput but are silent on the issue of the death of Delkar.

Delkar (58), a seven-time MP from Dadra & Nagar Haveli died by suicide at Sea Green Hotel at Marine Drive in Mumbai, on 22 February, after writing a 16-page note in which he allegedly blamed several people including the Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Praful Patel, a former Minister of State for Home in Gujarat.

The Congress in Maharashtra has urged state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of the NCP for a probe into the role of BJP.

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut, in his weekly column ‘Rokh Thok’ that appeared in Saamana on Sunday, questioned the silence.

“How there can be silence over the mysterious death of a seven-time Lok Sabha MP who was found hanging in his hotel room in Mumbai,” he said.

Taking a dig at the BJP, Raut said there is a sensation when an actor dies by suicide and unauthorized construction of an actress is pulled down. "Now everyone is silent. Delkar's purported suicide note blamed the administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli for harassment and alleged he was being pressurized to join the BJP," Raut wrote.

Raut, who is the Executive Editor of Saamana, pointed out that Delkar must have thought that the Mumbai Police will act on his suicide note and arrest the guilty.

Saying that he personally knew Delkar for two decades, he said: “Delkar had recently spoken in the Lok Sabha on how MP, MLAs n union territories are insulted by the Administrator.”