Maratha quota: Chaggan Bhujbal, who is the minister for food and civil supplies in the Maharashtra government questioned the ‘backdoor entry’ of Marathas into the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community.
Kedar, a five-term MLA from Saoner in Nagpur, was sentenced to five years in jail on December 22 by a magistrate court in Nagpur on charges including criminal breach of trust in a case linked to the Nagpur district cooperative bank when he was the chairman between 1999 and 2002.
The official said if any of the legislators fail to reply and submit their documents within seven days, it will be considered they they have nothing in their defense and subsequently, the deputy chairperson can take a decision and adjudicate that person's disqualification.
Shiv Sena UBT MLC Ambadas Danve slammed the state government for allowing Malik to rub shoulders with them after previously branding him as a ‘terrorist’ and ‘traitor’.
The special court on Thursday said the ED filed its first chargesheet in the case in April 2016 and a supplementary one in 2018, against a total of 59 accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.