Alleging irregularities to the tune of Rs 4,800 crore in the BJP-led Maharashtra government's flagship 'Jalyukt Shivar' scheme, Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil Wednesday demanded an inquiry into the "scam". He said a panel of water experts should be appointed and the inquiry should be constituted under the Commissions of Inquiry Act.

The Congress leader was speaking in the Lower House of the state Legislature over the debate on drought situation in the state. "Of the Rs 8,000 crore spent on the government's flagship scheme to create water storage in the state, there were irregularities to the tune of Rs 4,800 crore," he alleged.