Sanjay Raut after MVA meeting says 40 percent corruption in K'taka, 100 percent in Maharashtra

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut launched a scathing attack on Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s government alleging that there is 100 per cent corruption in the state.

Raut's remarks came after a meeting of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was held at the residence of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. Leaders including Uddhav Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, Nana Patole, Ajit Pawar, Balasaheb Thorat and others were present in the meeting.

After the MVA meeting, Raut said, There is no misunderstanding internally in the party (MVA). If there was 40 per cent corruption in Karnataka, there is 100 per cent corruption in Maharashtra. This current government is corrupt and it will get defeated.

Hours after the Supreme Court verdict on last year’s political crisis in Maharashtra, Sanjay Raut on Thursday said that the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is illegal and formed against the Constitution.

Supreme Court has said that the Shiv Sena Shinde group’s Whip is illegal. The current government is illegal and formed against the Constitution, he said on Thursday.

We are happy with the decision of the Supreme Court, democracy and the judicial system is still alive in the country. This government needs to resign immediately. The current government is illegal, if Uddhav Thackeray had not resigned as a matter of morality he would have become the Chief Minister. It means the new government formed is illegal and against the constitution…It cannot belong to any faction, Supreme Court has said, he added.

The Supreme Court on Thursday held that former Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was “not justified” to call for a floor test based on the request of the Eknath Shinde faction since he did not have enough objective material before him to conclude that the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had lost the confidence of the House.