After the centre gave National Investigation Agency (NIA) the charge to investigate the Bhima Koregaon case, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the Shiv Sena-led government will not remain quiet and will conduct its parellel investigation in regards to this matter.
Sharad Pawar said that the Narendra Modi government’s decision to transfer the Bhima-Koregaon case from Maharashtra government seems like a conspiracy to hide the role of previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Maharashtra. The NCP chief said that through this decision the centre wants to hide previous Devendra Fadnavis-led government’s misuse of the police machinery to frame social activists.
"The Maharashtra government will initiate a probe to check if the police fraudulently made up cases against social activists and writers,” Sharad Pawar was quoted in a report published by The New Indian Express.
Pawar further stated that the centre’s decision to transfer Bhima-Koregaon case to NIA in a hurry shows that there is a substance in the allegations that some police officials misused powers to arrest innocent people.
“Speaking on social injustice doesn’t make one as anti-national or Maoists,” Pawar asserted.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that the state government will seek legal opinion on the decision taken by the Union government to transfer the politically sensitive Bhima-Koregaon case.
Supporting Pawar’s remarks on the issue, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP government saying that anyone who opposes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah was labelled as “urban Naxals”.
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“Anyone who opposes the MOSH (Modi and Shah) agenda of hate is an 'Urban Naxal'. Bhima-Koregaon is a symbol of resistance that the Government’s NIA stooges can never erase,” Rahul Gandhi had tweeted in this regards.
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