Maharashtra Assembly elections are around the corner. Just a few weeks ago, former Home Minister and Sharad Pawar leader Anil Deshmukh made a splash in Maharashtra politics with the release of his book ‘Diary of a Home Minister’ Cause a stir. Among the allegations leveled in the book, leaders such as Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis are accused of hatching a conspiracy through Deshmukh to implicate some other senior leaders.
Deshmukh made four main accusations in his book. He claimed that he was offered that the proceedings in the ED and CBI cases against him would be dropped if he accepted their offer and he received a brown envelope with four points in it asking him to submit an affidavit. Among the four points, regarding Aditya Thackeray’s involvement in Disha Salian’s death, the then NCP leader, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and his son Parth Pawar had met Anil Deshmukh and Parth Pawar wanted to collect money from gutkha makers.
Anil Deshmukh claimed in the book that the third point is that Shiv Sena leader Anil Parab invested money in Sai Resort in Dapoli and only the documents were in the name of Sadanand Kadam. The fourth point is that Shiv Sena leader and then CM Uddhav Thackeray demanded Rs 300 crore from Deshmukh for the BMC elections. These are the points alleged to have been mentioned in the affidavit, which was given by a person named Samit Kadam, whom he met at his bungalow in April 2022 .
Anil Deshmukh claimed in his book that he was contacted in the last week of April 2021 by someone who identified himself as Samit Kadam from Sangli. Samit Kadam, who is associated with Devendra Fadnavis. This person claimed that Devendra Fadnavis wanted to help me with anything that happened against me. Deshmukh said he was surprised Devendra Fadnavis was able to speak to him directly, but sent an unidentified person to meet Deshmukh.
Thereafter, Deshmukh checked the man’s profile on social media and found that there were many photos of him with Devendra Fadnavis and that he was a Janata Party supporter of the BJP. ·Member of Jan Surajya Shakti Party. Samit Kadam told Deshmukh that Fadnavis wanted to talk to him and called a WhatsApp or FaceTime number from his mobile phone. “I understand that Fadnavis does not want to take the risk of talking to me directly on his or my cell phone,” Deshmukh wrote.
Kadam called a number via FaceTime or WhatsApp and allegedly asked Fadnavis to talk to him, the book said.
Deshmukh further wrote in the book, “Fadnavis called me Bhau and he also called me that day and said Bhau, don’t worry, we know the charges against you are not sufficient and we will help you. “Then Samit came again a week later and parked his car in a hanging garden away from the official bungalow so that the car number would not be recorded at the entrance to the bungalow. He told me that Fadnavis asked him to tell me that the ED officials would come to me and ask some questions and then the case would be closed.
The book further claims, “Following this, Samit told me that I (Deshmukh) should lodge a complaint about Aditya Thackeray’s role in Disha Salyan’s death case and his involvement with Ajit An affidavit has to be filed regarding other matters related to Dada, his son Parth, Uddhav Thackeray and Anil Prabhu. Then I am concerned about how they use Ajit Dada’s name. , while the BJP formed the government with Ajit Dadar Then Samit did not reply and I angrily said that I will not file a false affidavit and Devendra Fadnavis has fallen to it. To the point of implicating people in the government with him, I told Samit never to come back to me. After this, Samit came back a day later and said Fadnavis was worried about Ajit Dada’s name. , the views related to Ajit Pawar can be deleted as they belong to the same party.
