Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday alleged that during the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, a “contract” was given to some officials to frame him and other BJP leaders in false cases and put them behind bars.
Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, he said that the Uddhav Thackeray-led government failed to imprison him and other BJP leaders because many honest officials refused to file false cases against them.
Fadnavis was responding to a query about former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s allegation that former home minister Anil Deshmukh pressured him to file false cases against certain BJP leaders.
“What he (Singh) said about efforts being made to arrest me and other BJP leaders is completely true. He only talked about one incident, but there are four such incidents wherein conspiracies were hatched to arrest me in false cases, Fadnavis.