On Tuesday, Maharashtra Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh mocked the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Devendra Fadnavis, and asked him if he would campaign on behalf of former Bihar police chief Gupteshwar Pandey, “who defamed Maharashtra “.
Fadnavis, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, is the BJP election manager for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. Pandey recently voluntarily retired from service and joined Janata Dal (United) from Bihar’s Chief Minister NitishKumar.
“I want to ask Devendra Fadnavis if he will campaign for the former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, a person who defamed Maharashtra,” Deshmukh said during a media interaction.
Deshmukh’s mockery of Fadnavis comes in the wake of a panel report from the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput. The panel has ruled out murder in the death of the 34-year-old actor, who was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14.
Pandey had been one of the most vocal voices calling for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the Rajput’s death, following a war of words between the Mumbai police and the Bihar police over the parallel investigation. of the force Patna team in the case brought by the actor’s family in Patna.
He has made a number of controversial comments on the matter, including actor Rhea Chakraborty, who is currently in court custody for allegedly supplying drugs to the Rajput. After his voluntary retirement, Pandey was accused of using the case as “political capital”.
Several Maharashtra leaders have called for “vindication” in the wake of the AIIMS panel report. While Shiv Sena’s leader Sanjay Raut said there has been a conspiracy to smear the Maharashtra government and the Mumbai police, State Minister Jayant Patil called the report a ‘slap in the face’ for those who had defamed the government. from Maharashtra.
The Bihar assembly elections will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7. The vote count will take place on November 10.
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