Friday, March 29, 2024

ED summons Raut: “Conspiracy to stop me”

Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai for questioning tomorrow in a case of alleged money laundering.

Raut, a Rajya Sabha member, responded with the charge that “this is a conspiracy to stop me”. 

In his tweet, Raut added that he “won’t take the Guwahati route”, referring to the rebels camping in Guwahati, Assam. 

The summons to Raut are in connection with the ₹ 1,034-crore Patra Chawl land scam case, in which the ED attached his properties in April. 

Two months on, as several Shiv Sena MLAs rebelled and sought a breakup of the Sena’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

The rebels have insisted that the Sena should go back to its “natural” alliance with the BJP, citing a shared Hindutva ideology.

Meanwhile, the battle for a claim to the “real” Shiv Sena is now being fought in court as well. The Shinde camp has moved the Supreme Court against the Shiv Sena’s move to disqualify him and 15 other rebel MLAs. In the petition, Shinde has claimed that the ruling alliance in Maharashtra has lost majority as 38 of 55 Shiv Sena legislators have “withdrawn support”. 

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