Centre using probe agencies to muzzle voices of BJPs opponents NCP
Mumbai Mar 31 PTI Maharashtras ruling coalition ally NCP on Thursday accused the central government of using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of the BJPs political opponentsMaharashtra NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said the Enforcement Directorate ED has registered 4700 cases and arrested 313 people since the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA became effective in 2002Addressing a press conference here Tapase said these figures were submitted by the Centre to the Supreme CourtThe NCPs attack on the Centre came on a day when the ED conducted searches at the house of a Nagpur-based lawyer Satish Uke who has filed several petitions against senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis in the last few yearsTapase said the ED has carried out around 1700 raids 2011 onwards and added that the Union finance ministry had recently informed that conviction of accused persons was secured from courts in very few cases registered under the PMLAWe are seeing that an attempt is being made to settle scores with political opponents of the BJP through the agencies The Centre is using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of its the BJPs political opponents on a big scale the NCP chief spokesperson allegedHe said the conviction rate in cases registered under the PMLA will actually go up if political interference in functioning of the ED is avoidedTapase further said BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had filed a complaint before the ED against Union Minister Narayan Rane in 2016 when the latter was in the Congress and asked what happened to that caseRane joined the BJP in 2019Has Rane got a clean chit It should be disclosed he saidThe NCP leader also attacked the central government over rising fuel prices saying it has adversely affected common peopleThe NCP is part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government in which the Congress is also a constituent PTI ENM RSY RSY
Mumbai Mar 31 PTI Maharashtras ruling coalition ally NCP on Thursday accused the central government of using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of the BJPs political opponentsMaharashtra NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said the Enforcement Directorate ED has registered 4700 cases and arrested 313 people since the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA became effective in 2002Addressing a press conference here Tapase said these figures were submitted by the Centre to the Supreme CourtThe NCPs attack on the Centre came on a day when the ED conducted searches at the house of a Nagpur-based lawyer Satish Uke who has filed several petitions against senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis in the last few yearsTapase said the ED has carried out around 1700 raids 2011 onwards and added that the Union finance ministry had recently informed that conviction of accused persons was secured from courts in very few cases registered under the PMLAWe are seeing that an attempt is being made to settle scores with political opponents of the BJP through the agencies The Centre is using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of its the BJPs political opponents on a big scale the NCP chief spokesperson allegedHe said the conviction rate in cases registered under the PMLA will actually go up if political interference in functioning of the ED is avoidedTapase further said BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had filed a complaint before the ED against Union Minister Narayan Rane in 2016 when the latter was in the Congress and asked what happened to that caseRane joined the BJP in 2019Has Rane got a clean chit It should be disclosed he saidThe NCP leader also attacked the central government over rising fuel prices saying it has adversely affected common peopleThe NCP is part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government in which the Congress is also a constituent PTI ENM RSY RSY
