Father-son duo will go to jail: Sanjay Raut
Mumbai (PTI): A day after he accused some BJP leaders and businessmen of being involved in corrupt practices and targeted former MP Kirit Somaiya, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said a father-son duo will go to jail.
Father-son duo will go to jail. Wait and watch. Sanitisation of the barrack is going on, he tweeted in Marathi.
Raut, however, didn't name any politician in his post.
Addressing a press conference at the Shiv Sena headquarters in Mumbai on Tuesday, Raut had launched a personal attack against Somaiya, who has been raising a slew of allegations against the Sena brass and other leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi.
Raut had alleged that Neil Somaiya, son of Kirit Somaiya, had links with Rakesh Wadhwan, an accused in the PMC bank fraud.
Raut had also said that he will submit all the papers in this connection to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray for appropriate action. He had also demanded the arrest of Somaiya father-son in the PMC case.
Denying allegations, Kirit Somaiya had said that he was ready to face any investigation. I have done nothing wrong. I was never indulged in corruption. I am ready to face any inquiry," he had said.
Days before his press conference, which was attended by Shiv Sena MLAs, ministers and thousands of party workers, Raut had said that "three-and-a-half" leaders of BJP will go to jail and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh will walk out of the jail.
Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
