Anil Deshmukh quits, Dilip Walse Patil is new Maharashtra Home Minister
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has resigned from his post
| 6 April 2021 12:18 AM GMT
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has resigned from his post, hours after the Bombay High Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the corruption allegations levelled against him by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, a top Nationalist Congress Party leader said here on Monday.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has appointed senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, ex-Speaker and Labour Minister Dilip Walse-Patil as the new Home Minister.
The CM also tweaked his Cabinet by handing over the Labour department to Minister Hasan Mushrif, and State Excise portfolio to Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
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Anil Deshmukh of the Nationalist Congress Party resigned as Maharashtra Home Minister on Monday. This comes only about a month after the state s Forest Minister Sanjay Rathod of the Shiv Sena resigned amidst a controversy.
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UPDATED: April 6, 2021 08:46 IST
Anil Deshmukh of the Nationalist Congress Party resigned as Maharashtra Home Minister on Monday. (Photo: File)
Two ministers have resigned from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra. One has survived. Before Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned from the Uddhav Thackeray government on Monday, Sanjay Rathod, the then forest minister, quit on February 28.
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UPDATED: April 6, 2021 00:14 IST
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh during the Legislature Budget session at Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai, March 4, 2020 (Vijayanand Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
On April 5, the Bombay High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a primary investigation into the allegations that Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh had asked a couple of top police officials to collect Rs 100 crore per month from the bars and restaurants in Mumbai. The HC gave the CBI a fortnight’s time to complete the investigation and submit a report. Some three hours after the order, Deshmukh put in his papers, becoming the second minister after Sanjay Rathod to quit the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in a m
Maharashtra s Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday resigned from his post just hours after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into allegations of corruption and misconduct made by former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni said this was an extraordinary and unprecedented case that warranted an independent inquiry. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has met the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, to tender his resignation, NCP leader Nawab Malik said. The CM is yet to accept his resignation, he added. In his resignation letter to the CM, Deshmukh said he didn t find it morally correct to continue as the home minister after Bombay High Court order.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has resigned from his post, hours after the Bombay High Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the corruption allegations levelled against him.