Police said Rathod demanded lakhs of rupees and promised to give ministerial berths to these MLAs in the next cabinet expansion. (File Photo/PTI)
The accused, Neeraj Singh Rathore, who hails from Gujarat, had offered a place in the cabinet to four BJP MLAs – Vikas Kumbhare, Tekchand Savarkar, Tanaji Mutkule and Narayan Kuche.
Nagpur Police has arrested a man who posed as personal assistant of BJP chief JP Nadda and promised party legislators in Maharashtra a ministerial berth.
The accused, Neeraj Singh Rathore, who hails from Gujarat, had offered a place in the cabinet to four BJP MLAs – Vikas Kumbhare, Tekchand Savarkar, Tanaji Mutkule and Narayan Kuche. india today informed of.
However, BJP MLA Vikas Kumbhare approached the police against Rathod. Kumbhare has said in his complaint that Rathore approached him several times and offered him the urban development portfolio in the Maharashtra cabinet.
Police said Rathod demanded lakhs of rupees and promised to give ministerial berths to these MLAs in the next cabinet expansion.
Police registered a case under IPC sections 419 (cheating by person), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit an offense punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) Have done
Nadda recently visited Maharashtra where he held several meetings with party leaders.
The BJP chief called for collective efforts by the party to ensure that the next mayor of Mumbai belongs to the BJP. “We all need to work in such a way that the next mayor of Mumbai city will be from BJP”.
Pointing to those present, he said, “With your strength, we don’t have to think twice about this resolution (installing BJP’s mayor)”.
Nadda advised BJP workers to develop the skill of listening to people. He also met Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Nadda termed the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray as “totally corrupt”, which he said had stopped all good work.
The last mayor of Mumbai before the five-year term of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ends in March 2022 was Kishori Pednekar, who belongs to the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction. The state government appointed an administrator in the BMC as elections could not be held before the end of the five-year term.