Anil Deshmukh’s resignation proves that Uddhav Thackeray lost moral authority to govern :Ravi Shankar Prasad

The BJP on Monday trained its guns on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying that he has forfeited the moral authority to control the state following the resignation of Anil Deshmukh as state home minister.

Deshmukh had resigned after the Bombay supreme court ordered a CBI probe into the corruption allegations levelled against him by former Mumbai commissioner Param Bir Singh.

Addressing a news conference , senior BJP leader and Union minister Shankar Prasad asked if Thackeray has any moral responsibility following Deshmukh’s resignation because the state home minister.

So many major incidents have happened under his government, Prasad said, pertaining to the Sachin Vaze case and former Mumbai commissioner Param Bir Singh’s corruption allegations against Deshmukh.

Prasad said that the BJP hopes the difficulty are going to be investigated properly. “The BJP expects that each one the ramifications of this issue need to be investigated fairly, properly and people involved must be delivered to book,” the Union Minister was quoted as saying by ANI.

BJP leader and former state CM Devendra Fadnavis also questioned Thackeray’s silence over the difficulty of corruption allegations against Deshmukh.