Activist vows to move court against Khadse

NAGPUR: Former Aam Aadmi Party leader Anjali Damania accused the Maharashtra government of shielding corrupt leaders and contractors involved in the irrigation scam

NAGPUR: Former Aam Aadmi Party leader Anjali Damania accused the Maharashtra government of shielding corrupt leaders and contractors involved in the irrigation scam to protect their own tainted ministers.

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Damania, who was in Nagpur, termed the clean chit given to former revenue minister Eknath Khadse by government agencies a farce and asserted that she would move court against the minister who had resigned after a series of charges were levelled against him.

She even slammed chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for absolving Khadse of the charges. Even before an enquiry committee was appointed, Fadnavis had said that Khadse would come out clean, Damania pointed out and alleged that all the corrupt ministers in state were getting a clean chit without proper investigations.

Damania, who had launched a tirade against the former revenue minister, said she would appear in person in all the 11 defamation cases filed against her by Khadse and his supporters. “I would produce evidence before the court to prove the charges,” she said.

Damania claimed that she had concrete evidence against many ministers in the Devendra Fadnavis ministry, including Pankaja Munde, Vinod Tawde, Jaikumar Rawal, Chandrashekhar Bawankule and Dr Ranjit Patil, which she would make public soon.

“The BJP top brass is aware of the misdeeds of these ministers and is protecting them,” she claimed and alleged that they are also not keen to prosecute tainted NCP leaders including Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare to save the government.