The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) attachment of his “honestly-earned assets” was an instance of persecution of middle-class Maharashtrians in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Tuesday. He accused the BJP-ruled Central government of unleashing its agencies against him after he allegedly refused to help the BJP topple the tripartite ruling ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ (MVA) government.
Speaking in New Delhi, the Sena spokesperson denied he had any illicit “property”. He said he had only his flat in Dadar and a piece of land not more than an acre in his ancestral Alibaug. He had been fully aware for some time now that Central agencies had been put behind him.
“I am a Shiv Sainik. These false investigation do not scare me or my party. I will never bow before this politics of revenge of vendetta,” he stated. He was not given any prior notice by the agency before it attached his flat and land, he claimed.
