BJP should ask Eknath Shinde, Ajit Pawar to apologise: Nana Patole

Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole on Saturday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP should apologise and also get Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar to do the same for the injustice done to the youth through contract recruitmentThe BJP should not indulge in fake protests on the issue he addedThe BJP held protests in several parts of the state during the day asking the Maha Vikas Aghadi and previous Congressled dispensations as well as its leaders like Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar to apologise for bringing in contract recruitment into the process of government hiringDevendra Fadnavis and BJP have deprived the youth of the state of jobs The projects coming into the state were diverted to Gujarat and the lives of the youth have been ruined by making a mess of the government recruitments Therefore BJP and Devendra Fadnavis should stop this gimmick of protests and apologise and also ask CM Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar to apologise as well Nana Patole saidHe further said that the BJP is number one in peddling liesThe Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh teaches you to lie That is why BJP leaders are constantly telling lies Devendra Fadnavis also tried to mislead people about the contract recruitment issue but the people of the state especially the youth understood this falsehood of the BJP While 25 lakh government posts are vacant in the state the BJP government is not filling these posts The BJP is behind the scams in teacher recruitment police recruitment MPSC exams and talathi recruitment the Maharashtra Congress chief saidAttacking the BJP over farmer suicides unemployment and industries moving out of Maharashtra Patole claimed several youths who cleared exams were yet to get appointment letters even after two to three yearsLast month a GR government resolution was issued to fill the highly important posts like that of tehsildar and naib tehsildar on a contract basis instead of recruitment through MPSC exams Fadnavis is trying desperately to keep his clean image by blaming others Patole saidThe BJP government in the state has deprived lakhs of the youth of jobs by allowing projects like Vedanta Foxconn Tata Airbus etc to leave the state and set up units elsewhere he saidFarmers suicides have increased there is no remunerative price for farm produce crime has increased inflation is at an alltime high and bullying by ruling MLAs and MPs has gone up Patole allegedEven if the BJP Fadnavis and state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule apologise a hundred times to the people of Maharashtra their sins will not be washed away People have recognised the BJPs sinister plans and will teach them a lesson by sending them home defeat in polls Patole said