A Conspiracy Against BJP Leaders In Maharashtra?

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday alleged that the special public prosecutor of the state government has been planning a conspiracy against BJP leaders in Maharashtra, amid an ongoing blame game over probes by central agencies against several Maharashtra leaders. Demanding a CBI probe, Fadnavis handed over a pen drive with 125 hours of video recording to the Assembly Speaker.

“What is going on in the state if SPP (special public prosecutor) of state government plans a conspiracy against us? All these things have happened, I have videos. Who will investigate this? I request you (Speaker) that this must be investigated by CBI,” Fadnavis said in the Maharashtra Assembly.

Fadnavis further added that the opposition does not has trust in the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state. He also threatened to go to court against the government.

The former Maharashtra chief minister said that the 125-hour video in the pen drive showed a special public prosecutor conspiring to trap the opposition leaders in MCOCA and other such cases.

In an exclusive conversation with Republic, senior Supreme Court advocate & Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani called it the ‘most sordid of events’. As none can be trusted for a fair investigation in Maharashtra, he requested the matter to be immediately transferred to the CBI. “It is the only right thing to do. And thereafter, the CBI should immediately arrest the Special Public Prosecutor Mr Chavan who is the centre of the earthquake. Why one says he is the centre is because he is the only one in the entire conversation, having been taped for over 125 minutes. In the tape, he has revealed this most sordid episode in which the parties, the highest politicians, the most senior leaders of the state MVA government in Maharashtra have all been made a party to a criminal conspiracy to falsely implicate the Opposition leaders including by planting blood-stained knives on one of them.”