Mumbai: State industries minister and senior Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai and revenue minister and senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse have taken pot shots at each other over a controversy arising over a land purchase by Mr Khadse’s family.
Pune-based builder Hemant Gawande has claimed that Mr Khadse had purchased land in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation area of Bhosari in Pune worth crores at a paltry rate by abusing his power.
Mr Desai concurred with Mr Gawande that Mr Khadse had erred, but the BJP minister said that the plot was freehold land and his family had the right to purchase it.
Mr Khadse also had a meeting with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at Mantralaya on Monday.
However, CMO sources as well as Mr Khadse’s office said that the meeting had nothing to do with any of the controversies surrounding Mr Khadse, but the two leaders had met to finalise the party’s candidates for the state Legislative Council elections.
