Updated On: 24 February, 2025 07:50 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Dhananjay Munde is under fire from the opposition and some Mahayuti colleagues after close aide Walmik Karad was held in an extortion case linked to the abduction and brutal murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh

Sharad Pawar during a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Anyone with self-respect would have quit, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP SP) supremo Sharad Pawar said that on Monday amid demands that Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde resign after his close aide was held in a case that has made national headlines, reported the PTI.
Dhananjay Munde, MLA from Parli in Beed district of Maharashtra, is under fire from the opposition and some Mahayuti colleagues after close aide Walmik Karad was held in an extortion case linked to the abduction and brutal murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Massajog in Beed on December 9.