The parties urged the Election Commission to instrumentality stern enactment successful the matter.
After Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) workers allegedly caught BJP nationalist wide caput Vinod Tawde distributing currency successful Virar, the AAP and the authorities Congress connected Tuesday said the BJP was stooping excessively debased successful a hopeless bid to triumph the Assembly polls. The parties urged the Election Commission to instrumentality stern enactment successful the matter.
“Earlier also, Vinod Tawde was progressive during the Chandigarh Mayor polls. He had tried to origin a divided successful the AAP and wean distant our corporators. Even during the Punjab polls, helium was progressive and was engaged roping successful AAP MPs and different leaders into the party. As claimed by the BJP, the currency mightiness not beryllium for voters but who was the enactment trying to purchase,” said AAP Pune portion main Mukund Kirdat successful a property release.
Kirdat said BJP leaders similar Sudhir Mungantiwar and Pravin Darekar claimed that its nationalist leaders would not administer wealth successful tiny constituencies. “Then astatine what level bash BJP nationalist leaders administer money? Can the BJP clarify this,” helium asked.
“Election officials seized Rs 10 lakh currency from Tawde’s room. When the Modi authorities has made each transactions done physics mode, wherefore was Tawde roaming astir with Rs 10 lakh cash,” helium added.
Kirdat said bags of different nationalist leaders are being checked. “Election officials are indulging successful a play of checking bags of different enactment leaders truthful that the BJP tin transportation retired its soiled tricks earlier polling,” helium alleged.
State Congress spokesperson Gopal Tiwari said, “The blatant and brazen mode successful which Tawde was caught distributing currency reveals that the BJP is acrophobic of losing the Maharashtra elections. The soil nether its feet was slipping and that is wherefore it was resorting to specified debased level tactics.”
Tiwari said the Election Commission should instrumentality stern enactment successful the substance and not bow down to unit from the BJP apical leadership. “The BJP apical enactment volition successful each probability enactment unit connected the commission. It volition bash everything imaginable to amusement that Tawde was not distributing cash. The EC should not bow to immoderate pressure. It should uphold the Constitution,” Tiwari said.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Congress appealed to voters to elite MVA candidates if they wanted existent improvement of Pune city. “If Puneites privation due roads, postulation jam escaped city, capable h2o supply, beardown drainage system, improved wellness facilities and effectual implementation of the improvement plan, past we impulse the voters to elite each MVA candidates with grounds borderline of votes,” Tiwari said.
Referring to the onslaught connected erstwhile Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and the alleged currency organisation by Tawde, Tiwari said, “During the polls the BJP has sunk debased and earlier the polls for 2 and fractional years, it indulged successful breaking parties and filing mendacious cases against absorption leaders. Development is the past connection connected its agenda. BJP lone knows however to play authorities circular the clock. This is against nationalist interest. People privation bully infrastructure, jobs and inflation to beryllium checked. Only the MVA is susceptible of doing this. The MVA has fielded each candidates with bully way grounds successful nationalist and those susceptible of pushing city’s faster development. The voters request to marque their prime betwixt who is bully for Pune’s involvement and who is not.”
Click here to articulation Express Pune WhatsApp channel and get a curated database of our stories