Firmly standing by the actions of the Mumbai police, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil on Sunday admonished Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya by stating that he had no business to visit arrested husband-wife duo of MLA Ravi Rana and MP Navneet Rana at Mumbai’s Khar police station knowing fully well that it would stoke further discontent.
Slamming the BJP at the Centre and the State, Mr. Walse-Patil further alleged that ever since the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government (of the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress) had come to power in Maharashtra, the BJP had been persistently attempting to topple it.
Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Mr. Walse-Patil was responding to Mr. Somaiya’s allegations that the alleged assault by Shiv Sainiks was “sponsored by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in conjunction with the Mumbai police”.
