Maha BJP leader Kirit Somaiya detained to maintain law and order: Sanjay Raut

Reacting to Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP criticism of the Maharashtra government for the detention of Kirit Somaiya Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said that this was done to maintain law and order in the stateThe legal proceedings were done by the home ministry and had nothing to do with the office of the chief minister stated RautIf a person poses a threat to the maintenance of law and order in an area the home ministry has the right to take legal action he addedHe further said that the state governments stability is not affected by BJPs allegations against the ministers or using the central investigating agency to frame themThe decision whether these ministers are actually guilty will be taken by the court he statedSomaiya was detained at Karad Railway Station in the Satara district of Maharashtra in the early hours of Monday He was expected to visit Kohlapur today and was en route the district via trainAlso read Maharashtra BJP leader Kirit Somaiya detained at Karad railway station in SataraAhead of his visit Kolhapur District Collector had issued prohibitory orders against him and imposed Section 144 prohibiting gatherings on September 20 and 21The BJP leader was scheduled to visit the properties owned by Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader and Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif in which he claims corruption has taken place Somaiya had also levelled allegations of money laundering against Maharashtra Cabinet Ministers Chhagan Bhujbal and Anil ParabBJP slammed the Maharashtra government over Somaiyas detention and had alleged that the leader was being targeted because he was exposing scams related to corrupt ministers of the governmentEarlier in the day Mushrif said that he will file Rs 100 crore defamation suit against SomaiyaThe allegation which is being made by Kirit Somaiya is part of BJPs big conspiracy and Chandrakant Patil is the mastermind of this I have been very vocal about the Centre using central agencies against Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA and on the issue of Parambir Singh It is the reason I am being framed by BJP through Kirit Somaiya to stop me he statedReacting to Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP criticism of the Maharashtra government for the detention of Kirit Somaiya Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said that this was done to maintain law and order in the stateThe legal proceedings were done by the home ministry and had nothing to do with the office of the chief minister stated RautIf a person poses a threat to the maintenance of law and order in an area the home ministry has the right to take legal action he addedHe further said that the state governments stability is not affected by BJPs allegations against the ministers or using the central investigating agency to frame themThe decision whether these ministers are actually guilty will be taken by the court he statedSomaiya was detained at Karad Railway Station in the Satara district of Maharashtra in the early hours of Monday He was expected to visit Kohlapur today and was en route the district via trainAhead of his visit Kolhapur District Collector had issued prohibitory orders against him and imposed Section 144 prohibiting gatherings on September 20 and 21The BJP leader was scheduled to visit the properties owned by Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader and Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif in which he claims corruption has taken place Somaiya had also levelled allegations of money laundering against Maharashtra Cabinet Ministers Chhagan Bhujbal and Anil ParabBJP slammed the Maharashtra government over Somaiyas detention and had alleged that the leader was being targeted because he was exposing scams related to corrupt ministers of the governmentEarlier in the day Mushrif said that he will file Rs 100 crore defamation suit against SomaiyaThe allegation which is being made by Kirit Somaiya is part of BJPs big conspiracy and Chandrakant Patil is the mastermind of this I have been very vocal about the Centre using central agencies against Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA and on the issue of Parambir Singh It is the reason I am being framed by BJP through Kirit Somaiya to stop me he statedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever