PUNE: Reiterating that the Congress would go solo in the upcoming civic polls, Nana Patole, the party state unit chief, said a decision on the panel system would be taken by the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi.
“The policy about civic elections is final. We will fight it on our own. The details will be finalised in the days to come,” he said while speaking at a press conference to mark the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on Friday.
Patole blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the “mismanagement” of the government. He also said that the Jan Ashirwad Yatra was an irony. “The inflation has gone up. Petrol prices have crossed Rs100. Amid such a scenario, why are the BJP leaders going on this rally? I guess they want to take the blessings of the people to push up the price of petrol to Rs200,” Patole said.
The BJP has become an epitome of corruption from the local level to Delhi, he said. “The BJP was talking of doing away with corruption. The black money has increased by 300 times since 2014,” he said.
He also said that the policy of leasing out amenity spaces was wrong. The PMC should scrap it.
Patole blamed the “wrong policies” of the Union government for deaths caused by Covid-19 across the country.
Regarding the change in the name of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, he said even though the name of the late prime minister has been removed from the medal, he still lives in the hearts of youngsters and people. Patole said that the interference of the central investigating agencies was causing delay in key investigations in Maharashtra, including Narendra Dabholkar’s murder.
“A lot of time has passed, but the killers are still at large. It is wrong to state that the killers have not been found. It is an open secret that the Union government’s investigation agencies are interfering in the matter,” the Congress state unit prsident added.
