Alluding to cinema with “the picture is not over yet”, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and State Minister Nawab Malik on Friday said that he would be exposing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and their alleged nexus with an extortion racket at the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the upcoming winter session at Nagpur.
“I am going to expose some BJP leaders and their connections with NCB officer Sameer Wankhede in the winter session starting from December 7. It will be a stormy session and once those names are out, the BJP leaders will not be able to show their face in public,” Mr. Malik said at a press conference held on Friday.
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Recalling his earlier statement on “a bearded person organising a drug party on the Cordelia [ship] cruise” being let off by Mr. Wankhede, Mr. Malik said that Fashion TV head Kashif Khan had organised the alleged “drugs party” on the Cordelia cruise ship recently.
“Kashif Khan is notorious for distribution of drugs, for running a sex and pornography racket, and had posted an advertisement for the Cordelia drug party on social media. Despite that, intelligent officers of the NCB did not call him for any inquiry or probe,” he said. According to Mr. Malik, an NCB official told him that whenever they tried to take action against Mr. Khan, Mr. Wankhede opposed them.
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“Picture (movie) will end with Wankhede losing his job and facing legal action for forging documents and securing a job that was meant for a Scheduled Caste candidate,” he said.
Mr. Malik has alleged that the NCB officer is a Muslim and fraudulently acquired a caste certificate to get a government job.
On Thursday, Mr. Wankhede’s wife Kranti Redkar wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, seeking justice in the wake of the “attack on her family and her personal life”.
“Being a Marathi person, I expect some justice from your side as my personal life is unnecessarily being dragged into a controversy. Had late Balasaheb Thackeray [Mr. Uddhav Thackeray’ father] been alive today, he would not have tolerated such a personal attack on a woman’s dignity,” she said.
Mr. Malik said that Ms. Redkar was “becoming a part of the controversy to defame Maharashtra, just like her husband”. “I have been in Maharashtra since my birth. I am as much Marathi as you are. But justice sees no barrier of language or religion. Those trying to defame Maharashtra will be dealt by the law,” he said.
Mr. Wankhede is facing allegations of extortion in the Cordelia cruise drugs case. A departmental vigilance probe has been initiated.
