Deshmukh has also dared Fadnavis, who is now the home minister, to make the Justice Chandiwal Commission report public, claiming he had been given a clean chit in the graft case against him.Fadnavis on Sunday said the Chandiwal Commission report was submitted when the MVA was in power but no action was taken.Countering it, Deshmukh on Monday said, “It is right that the report was submitted to the MVA government, but it fell within a few days after the report was submitted, and hence the MVA government could not release it.”Subsequently, the Mahayuti government (of Shiv Sena and BJP) came to power and the Chandiwal Commission report is kept with Fadnavis for the last two years, he claimed.”I have been requesting them to make the report public, but Fadnavis is diverting the issue by saying the report was submitted during the MVA government and is delaying making it public. I again urge Fadnavis to make that report public,” Deshmukh said.To a query on banners allegedly defaming him erected in Nagpur by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Deshmukh claimed such hoardings were put “with the blessings of Devendra Fadnavis” and said police have taken action and removed them.Asked about Deshmukh’s claims, Deputy CM Fadnavis told reporters, “Jhooth bole kauva kaate…kaale kauve se dariyo (meaning, one should not speak lies, or else a crow will peck at you)” without elaborating.When contacted, BJP state spokesperson Chandan Goswami alleged the opposition INDIA alliance and the MVA were working on a strategy of telling lies, like their claim that the Constitution will be changed.On Deshmukh’s claims against Fadnavis, Goswami asked how can a leader (then) in opposition ask a police commissioner for such a thing when the MVA government had appointed Singh to the to post in Mumbai.”It is all a strategy to defame Fadnavis,” said the state BJP spokesperson.Meanwhile, former Mumbai police commissioner Singh, speaking to a Marathi news channel, strongly refuted Deshmukh’s allegations and said the ex-home minister has lost his “mental balance.””Whatever allegations I had made, all were substantiated and were also covered in investigations conducted by the ED and the CBI,” said the retired IPS officer.Deshmukh used to collect money not only from Mumbai but also from other places through various agents and evidence of this has come to the fore during investigations, alleged Singh.The former IPS officer claimed it is also a fact that after he levelled graft allegations against Deshmukh, he was threatened.Singh alleged the then-DGP Sanjay Pandey had threatened him and that he submitted evidence in this regard before the CBI and also in the Supreme Court.
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