Who is footing lodge payments in Guwahati, Surat, asks NCP; says IT dept, ED ought to discover supply of ‘black cash’
By PTI
MUMBAI: Amid the political disaster in Maharashtra triggered by a revolt by a big part of Shiv Sena MLAs, who’re at the moment tenting in Assam, the NCP on Saturday sought to know who was paying the payments of accommodations in Guwahati and Surat.
The Sharad Pawar-led get together, which shares energy with Sena and Congress within the state, additionally requested the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to search out out the supply of “black money” concerned.
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NCP’s chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase requested, “Who is paying the bills of hotels in Surat and Guwahati as well as the chartered flight? Is it true that the horsetrading rate is Rs 50 crore?” “If ED and IT get activated, the source of the black money will be exposed,” he added.
Majority of Shiv Sena MLAs have shifted their loyalty to minister Eknath Shinde and are tenting in Guwahati, plunging the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the Sena, right into a disaster.
Before a lodge in Guwahati grew to become the bottom of the insurgent MLAs, Shinde and a number of other different legislators had additionally stayed at a lodge in Surat.
