Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh has written a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackarey, demanding dismissal of party minister Sunil Kedar from the state cabinet while alleging that the latter got his lawyer friend appointed as government pleader in a case in which he is an accused.

The lawyer was head of the state Congress legal cell and hence, cannot fight such case as it amounts to "conflict of interest", claimed former MLA Deshmukh in his letter dated August 22.