MVA govt operating on ‘extortion’, misplaced ethical authority to manipulate, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

The BJP on Tuesday attacked the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities in Maharashtra, accusing it of shedding the “moral authority” to manipulate. Union Minister and senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned the state authorities is operating on “extortion.”
Citing former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s allegations towards state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, Prasad mentioned it was the “first time in the country’s history” {that a} police commissioner had levelled a corruption cost towards a sitting Home Minister.
During Tuesday’s press convention, Prasad mentioned the MVA authorities was headlined by “vasooli (extortion)”.
“When the target of one minister is Rs 100 crore, how much would it be of the remaining ministers? …A khela (game) is happening in Bengal, but in Maharashtra too. What’s happening in the state is not vikas (development), it is vasooli,” Prasad mentioned.
Following Param Bir Singh’s allegations, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had mentioned at a press convention that Home Minister Deshmukh was in self-isolation throughout the interval in query. On Tuesday, Prasad doubled down on the claims of BJP chief and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who had mentioned that flight manifests present Deshmukh flying from Nagpur to Delhi throughout that interval. Prasad requested if Deshmukh had put the lives of 8 different individuals on the reported chartered aircraft in danger if he was Covid-positive. He added that Pawar had been compelled to lie, and that his political credibility was at stake.