Beginning of fall of Maharashtra government: BJP on Anil Deshmukh's resignation

The BJP on Monday dubbed the ouster of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh the beginning of the fall of the “unholy, anti-people alliance government” in the state.

“MVA first wicket falls. Anil Deshmukh resigns after Bombay high court orders CBI enquiry into allegations of C P Param Bir Singh. This is the beginning of fall of an unholy, anti-people alliance government. Sooner it falls better it is for the state & country,” B L Santosh, BJP General Secretary (Organisation) said.

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Senior BJP leader and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had forfeited the moral authority to govern after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into the graft allegations against Deshmukh.

“Democracy is run by the standards of probity and propriety, The consistent conspicuous silence of Uddhav Thackeray is by itself raising a lot of questions,” Prasad told reporters after Deshmukh tendered his resignation as Home Minister.

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Prasad claimed that Deshmukh had met NCP president Sharad Pawar and sought his permission before putting in his papers, while Thackeray kept quiet on the entire episode.