New Delhi/Mumbai: The BJP high command has come under tremendous pressure to sack the controversial Maharashtra revenue minister, Eknath Khadse.
On Thursday, Maharashtra chief minister, Mr Devendra Fadnavis arrived in the national capital and met the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi and party president, Mr Amit Shah over the issue.
That the party high command was planning action against Mr Khadse was clear after the BJP top bosses in New Delhi rebuffed his relentless attempts to meet them.
Surrounded by a string of controversies ranging from telephonic conversations with underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim to buying an MIDC land at a throwaway price to his aide getting arrested for demanding Rs 30 crore bribe over a land deal and his son-in-law illegally possessing a limousine, the minister has reportedly been knocking on the doors of the party high command over the past few weeks.
On Thursday, Shiv Sena also joined the Opposition Congress in demanding Mr Khadse’s resignation. In fact for a change the BJP state unit also toed the Sena and Opposition line by mounting pressure on the party high command to sack Mr Khadse. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that the minister should resign owing allegations.
“It has been the late Sena supreme Balasaheb Thackeray that a minister should resign from the post until he is proved innocent. I request the CM to come up openly on the allegations made against Khadse,” Mr Raut said.
