MUMBAI/AKOLA/SAMBHAJINAGAR: Sharad Pawar must apologise to Union home minister Amit Shah for his statement that Shah had been “externed” by SC for misusing the law, Union minister and BJP MP Piyush Goyal said Saturday. While BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule said the courts had given Shah a clean chit, BJP minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil said Pawar should refrain from making personal attacks.
Pawar had made the “externment” taunt after Shah called the NCP (SCP) chief the “kingpin of corruption.”
Goyal said it was UPA govt, of which Pawar was an important part, which had filed a false and baseless case against Shah, which was ripped apart by Supreme Court. “Sensing the increasing popularity of then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and aware it was losing the next elections, UPA govt tried to make out a false case against Shah so it could also ensnare Modi. Pawar was a cabinet minister and was part of this conspiracy,” he said.
Pawar had made the “externment” taunt after Shah called the NCP (SCP) chief the “kingpin of corruption.”
Goyal said it was UPA govt, of which Pawar was an important part, which had filed a false and baseless case against Shah, which was ripped apart by Supreme Court. “Sensing the increasing popularity of then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and aware it was losing the next elections, UPA govt tried to make out a false case against Shah so it could also ensnare Modi. Pawar was a cabinet minister and was part of this conspiracy,” he said.