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Money Laundering Case: Anil Deshmukhโ€™s Son Withdraws Anticipatory Bail Application

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Ex-Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukhโ€™s son Hrishikesh Deshmukh on Tuesday withdrew his anticipatory bail application.

Maharashtra:  Ex-Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukhโ€™s son Hrishikesh Deshmukh on Tuesday withdrew his anticipatory bail application.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier issued summons to Hrishikesh for questioning in an alleged money laundering case, in which his father, Anil Deshmukh, was arrested.

Hrishikesh is also an accused in the case and never appeared before ED despite summoning by the agency, said sources.

Hrishikesh Deshmukh was an active participant in money laundering and had assisted his father in laundering the ill-gotten money, sources said.

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ED had asked Hrishikesh to appear before it on November 6, but he failed to do so, said ED officials.

Hrishikeshโ€™s father Anil Deshmukh was arrested by the ED in November last year in connection with extortion and money laundering allegations levelled against him by the former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.

In a letter to CM Thackeray, Singh had alleged that Anil Deshmukh was involved in several wrongdoings, including asking Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze to collect Rs100 crore from bars and restaurants in Mumbai.

Anil Deshmukh allegedly misused his position as state home minister and collected Rs4.70 crores from various bars in Mumbai through some police officers.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Gujarat Polls: BJP Trying To Win In Congressโ€™s Somnath Bastion, Focuses On Caste Factors

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With weeks to go for the Gujarat Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Gir Somnath, Mansingh Parmar has exuded confidence in winning all four seats in the constituency, which the party had lost to Congress in the 2017 elections.

Gir Somnath:  With weeks to go for the Gujarat Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Gir Somnath, Mansingh Parmar has exuded confidence in winning all four seats in the constituency, which the party had lost to Congress in the 2017 elections.

The caste factor has always dominated in the Gir Somnath district of Gujarat or in Saurashtra, which is one of the reasons why Congress is believed to have registered a win in all four constituencies here in the 2017 Assembly elections.

With an aim to counter this factor, this time around, the BJP has given tickets to candidates on a caste basis targeting all castes. Speaking to ANI on Monday, Parmar said, โ€œWe have faith in our party workers. We will win in Somnath.

The party had not kept the community factor in mind the last time, which is why we lost here. But this time this factor has been taken care of. The party has given tickets to the right candidate.โ€

When asked about the dominance of the caste factor in the region, Parmar who comes from the Rajput community, said that the party will win in the district if it takes all the communities spread across the constituencies together.

โ€œIt is not that the community factor has been dominant. There are mostly OBCs in Somnath. People from every community live here. So they feel that there should be a representation from their community. There are four assembly constituencies in Gir Somnath, there is Karadiya Rajput, the other has Ahir, the third has OBC and fourth has Koli. If we take all of them together, we will win,โ€ he said.

Talking about Aam Aadmi Party which is also in the fray and is hoping to make inroads in the state, Parmar said that โ€œAAPโ€™s freebies would not workโ€ in Gujarat.

โ€œAAP has come this time. Last time also, other parties had come. Various parties keep coming, it does not have any impact. AAPโ€™s freebie would not work here. This is the people of Gujarat who have seen the development done in the past 30 years,โ€ he said.

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โ€œAll four seats will come in BJPโ€™s bag. We are confident,โ€ he added. The BJP candidate said that the Patidar factor also had an impact in the last Assembly elections.

โ€œThe Patidar factor also had an impact the last time because this factor is dominant in the Una and Talala constituencies. There are nearly 2,62,000 voters in Somnath,โ€ he said.

Somnath is where BJP veteran LK Advani took out the Rath Yatra in the 1990s. Somnath has played an essential role in forming the BJP government in Gujarat. On the other hand, the BJP won three out of four assembly seats in Somnath in 2007.

The BJPโ€™s graph started falling continuously in Somnath. In the 2012 elections, the BJP won only one seat out of four seats. In 2017, the BJP lost all four seats in Somnath and the Congress won all four seats.

Voting for the Assembly elections will be held on December 1 and 5, and the counting of votes will take place on December 8.

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