Ram Temple land purchase a fit case for CBI, ED probe: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said the alleged financial irregularities in the purchase of land by the Ram temple trust in Ayodhya was a ldquofit caserdquo for probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI as well as the Enforcement Directorate EDHe said the BJPs national executive should pass a resolution to demand investigation by these agencies in the land caseRaut was responding to reporters query on the EDs searches at former state home minister Anil Deshmukhs premises in Nagpur and Mumbai on Friday as part of a moneylaundering probe against himAlso Read Maharashtra ED raids exhome minister Anil Deshmukhs premises in Nagpur MumbaiHitting out at the Maharashtra unit of the BJP for passing a resolution in its executive demanding CBI and ED probe against Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Shiv Sena minister Anil Parab Raut said ldquoAre the CBI and the ED your party workers or members of the IT cellrdquoThe Rajya Sabha member accused the BJP of lowering the importance of the central investigating agencies CBI and ED by ldquousing them for targeting political rivalsrdquoldquoIt is not right to misuse the central investigating agencies This should stop It is understandable if the agencies probe cases of national security loss to national treasury money laundering But why are you maligning the image of these agenciesrdquo Raut askedThe Uddhav Thackerayled Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government will complete two years in office this year he said adding that it would remain stable for another three yearsldquoSuch tactics to destablise the government will not workrdquo he saidMeanwhile speaking to reporters in Pune state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil said The matter related to Anil Deshmukh is subjudice and it will not be appropriate to comment on the ED action against himReplying to a question he said it was ldquovery strangerdquo that the ED searches come a day after the state BJP passed a resolution demanding CBI and ED probe against Ajit Pawar and Anil ParabldquoThis is the time to focus only on Covid19 But BJP is doing wrong things at wrong time he saidIn Nagpur NCP workers protested against the ED by holding a demonstration outside Deshmukhs residence NCP workers led by the partys city unit chief Duneshwar Pethe raised slogans against the central government terming it as ldquoautocraticrdquoTalking to reporters Pethe alleged that the central government was misusing the CBI and the ED and maligning the MVA governmentThis 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