MUMBAI: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has chosen to stand firm with Dhananjay Munde, the NCP minister caught in a political firestorm over the murder of a Beed sarpanch in December last year. On Monday Pawar, Nationalist Congress (NCP) party chief, was closeted with Munde for an hour in his office in the state secretariat, and in the evening, he drove to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis's official residence at Malabar Hill, to discuss the rapidly unraveling situation with him.
Munde told the media that his resignation did not come up during the meeting, and that he met Pawar to apprise him of his plans for the food and civil supplies department that he heads. On the allegations against him, Munde said: "The government has appointed a CID SIT to probe the incident. Let the probe be completed. Why is there a media trial? The BJP MLA who is making allegations against me should ask the chief minister or their party chief first."
Munde is the MLA from Parli in Beed district. His close aide, Beed strongman Walmik Karad, has been arrested in an extortion case linked to the horrific murder of Santosh Deshmukh, sarpanch of Massajog village in Beed. Deshmukh was tortured and killed, and his body tossed alongside a highway, allegedly because he foiled an attempt to extort money from a wind power company in his village.
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