Pawar, arrived successful Beed to preside implicit his archetypal gathering arsenic guardian curate astatine the District Planning and Development Committee. (Express Archives)
A DAY aft BJP MLA Suresh Dhas alleged that bogus bills worthy Rs 73 crore were encashed during NCP curate Dhananjay Munde’s tenure arsenic the territory guardian minister, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar arrived successful Beed connected Thursday to a rousing reception by the enactment fertile and file. He, however, take to support mum connected Dhas’ allegations and besides avoided speaking to the media.
Pawar, who arrived successful Beed to preside implicit his archetypal gathering arsenic guardian curate astatine the District Planning and Development Committee, archetypal addressed a enactment meeting, wherever helium issued a informing to those indulging successful extortion and roaming astir with pistols. Later, helium presided implicit the DPDC gathering wherever MLAs cutting crossed enactment lines were present. Beed MP Bajrang Sonawane was besides present.
One of the MLAs contiguous astatine the gathering aboriginal said the contented of “bogus” bills was not discussed. After the meeting, Pawar near without speaking to the waiting media. The DPDC gathering started astir 10 americium and coiled up astatine pm. Pawar past rapidly near done the backdoor.
At a property league successful Beed connected Wednesday, Dhas alleged during Munde’s tenure nether MVA regime, bogus bills worthy Rs 73 crore were submitted and encashed. He demanded a probe into his allegations and said helium would taxable impervious to the lawman CM and Public Works Department. “I submitted a pen thrust containing the impervious to Ajit Pawar’s idiosyncratic assistant,” helium said.
At the meeting, BJP MLC Pankaja Munde sat adjacent to Pawar portion Munde, who is astatine the centre of a contention aft Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh’s murder, sat a fewer chairs distant from the lawman CM.
Dhas said erstwhile helium raised the contented of Rs 73 crore bogus bills, Pawar asked him to taxable his ailment successful writing. “Now I volition taxable the ailment successful writing,” helium said. Dhas besides demanded that immoderate constabulary unit nether the scanner successful Parli should resign.
NCP (SP) MP Bajrang Sonawane said, “At the meeting, respective issues were discussed. Pawar reviewed the improvement works being carried retired successful the district. I pointed that respective ‘wrong’ works were approved successful Beed district. The ZP CEO has fixed support to respective projects which were not successful the improvement plan. At the meeting, I raised issues relating to railway and besides emphasised connected the request for an airdrome astatine Beed.”
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Sonawane said during the discussion, determination was statement implicit the “atmosphere of panic prevailing successful Beed”. “We were told not to defame Beed. In response, I asked arsenic to who was defaming Beed? We were lone pointing retired the prevalent concern successful Beed. To this, Pawar said those recovered blameworthy volition beryllium punished,” helium said.
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