NCP legislators at a meeting chaired by party chief Ajit Pawar on Thursday were told to step up outreach with the Muslim and Dalit communities and also increase communication with the politically influential Maratha community in the run-up to .
Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy sent a letter to the ED, demanding a probe against state health minister and his counterpart in Jamshedpur West constituency, Banna Gupta, accusing him of corruption and amassing ill-gotten money during his tenure in the department since 2019. In his 2,000-worded letter, Roy also alleged that Gupta took undue advantage of the Covid-19 incentive and that of his employees working in his ministerial cell.