Person close to Fadnavis told me to sign affidavit against Uddhav: Anil Deshmukh

Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh claimed that a person named Samit Kadam met him three years ago and forced him to give a statement against Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray but he refused to do so news agency ANI reported Kadam refuted the allegations and claimed that it was Deshmukh who had called him for a meetingAccording to Deshmukh Kadam is close to current Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and was also given Ycategory securitySamit Kadam came to meet me three years ago with a sealed envelope containing documents that I was asked to sign as an affidavit The affidavit had false allegations against Uddhav Thackeray and his son and then tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray This Samit Kadam is very close to Devendra Fadnavis and is related to Fadnavis Everyone knows about his closeness to Devendra Fadnavis the Nationalist Congress Party SCP leader saidDeshmukh added that later Kadam also tried making CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar sign such an affidavitDespite not being a public representative he Kadam was given Ycategory security I was forced to give statements against Uddhav Thackeray but I refused After his experiments failed the same experiment was done with Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar he claimedDeshmukh shared that the ldquothreatsrdquo were made three years ago when he was the Home Minister in Thackerayrsquos cabinet Ajit Pawar was Thackerayrsquos deputy then At that time Devendra Fadnavis caught former Mumbai Police chief Parambir Singh and made false allegations against me Deshmukh allegedThe former Maharashtra Home Minister said he had refused to give in to the threats He threatened me about releasing my videos I would say Baat niklegi to dur tak jayegi everything will be exposed Deshmukh saidDeshmukh also said that he refused to give in to Devendra Fadnavis and that he would never make false allegations I had told Devendra Fadnavis that I would never make such false allegations I have never seen such politics in Maharashtra They did not even spare children they tried to target them with dirty politics He said either go to jail or join the BJP Bharatiya Janata Party the NCP SCP leader saidResponding to the allegations levelled against him Kadam said that it was even impossible to reach Deshmukh three years ago if the latter was not willing to meet someone as he was the Home Minister thenI dont know why is this matter being raised now Anil Deshmukh was himself the Home Minister of the state and was having Zplus security So it was out of question that I could reach out to him without his own will Kadam saidKadam admitted that he had gone to meet Deshmukh but it was only because he was summoned for a meetingYes I had gone there to meet him because he had called me for that meeting He requested me to talk to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and then LOP Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis ji and see if they can help him Anil Deshmukh get him out of his problems So it is completely false to say that I went to meet him on the instructions of Devendra Fadnavis because Devendra ji is not even remotely connected to my meeting with Anil Deshmukh Ji Kadam claimedAccording to him the video of the meeting is irrelevant because he had met Dekhmukh only to keep the latterrsquos requestIf he Deshmukh says that he had some video of me meeting with him then that video is not of that importance because I met him on his own request So if there is a video of that meeting it is not going to make any difference Kadam saidOn July 25 Deshmukh in a press conference on Thursday said Pressure was put on me to speak against Uddhav Thackeray Aadtiya Thackeray and Ajit Pawar I have video recordings to prove it If someone challenges me then I will reveal everything Deshmukh had saidA day before the press conference Deshmukh accused Fadnavis of asking him to write four affidavits against Thackeray Aaditya Ajit Pawar and former minister Anil ParabThree years ago Devendra Fadnavis sent a man to me and asked me to write four affidavits I was asked to make written allegations against Uddhav Thackeray Aaditya Thackeray Ajit Pawar and Anil Parab Devendra Fadnavis sent the affidavits and asked me to sign them I was told that if I did this then neither ED Enforcement Directorate nor CBI Central Bureau of Investigation would come after me he saidDeshmukh added that ED and CBI were sent after him because he decided not to make any false allegations against the four peopleFadnavis however denied the allegations and said those making personal allegations against him will not be sparedThe FIR First information report against Deshmukh was registered by CBI after clear orders from the chief justice of the Bombay High Court Deshmukh also made personal allegations against Fadnavis said while speaking to ANIThe FIR against Anil Deshmukh was registered by CBI after clear orders by the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court At that time it was not even our government in the state Anil Deshmukh has been making personal allegations against me for a long time now Usually I dont go behind anyone but if someone comes for me in response I dont spare that individual he said adding I have several audios and videos provided by Anil Deshmukhs party men in which he is heard saying a lot about Uddhav Thackeray and his own party chief Sharad Pawar saheb When the time comes I will release thoserdquoWith ANI inputs