Heat on NCP as CBI gets its foot in Maharashtra door
It could be argued with some merit that the opposition wasn’t to a probe per se but to the CBI, given its record of being a political tool of the Centre.
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Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh (File Photo | ANI)
When a party that did grandstanding by nonchalantly suggesting an impartial inquiry by retired supercop Julio Ribeiro into allegations of extortion against its then minister, later sought to block a CBI probe against him, irony died a thousand deaths. It could be argued with some merit that the opposition wasn’t to a probe per se but to the CBI, given its record of being a political tool of the Centre. But the confidence the NCP displayed on day one was gone; its nervousness was now showing. The NCP had sought to brazen it out when the allegations by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh first surfaced, but was forced to ask its home minister Anil Deshmukh to resign aft