The former Union minister also averred that the Nationalist Congress Party may have differences with the Congress, but still swears by the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Despite the voluminous charge sheet running into thousands pages filed in 2016 there is no sufficient evidence to proceed the trial, they argued.
While taking into account the action of the ED on NCP leaders, Sharad Pawar took a swipe at Modi government. He said that ED is being used to mount pressure on opposition.
The Enforcement Directorate was never used before the way it is being used these days. It is clear that government is using this agency to pressurise Opposition leaders. It (ED raids) is not happening only in Maharashtra but in MP, Rajasthan, Punjab and some southern states also, said NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.
Anil Deshmukh in his application sought that the HC quash and set aside the summons issued to him from time-to-time by the central agency.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 5.73 crore of former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Eknath Khadse and his family in a money laundering case.
It is essential for everyone to come together in order to defeat BJP...Alone, I am nothing - everyone will have to work together. I am not a leader, I am a cadre. I am a person from the street, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) have decided to fight together in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The move is aimed at defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"Why can't BJP and NCP come together?", asks Union Minister for Social Justice, Ramdas Athawale
Talking to India TV, Sharad Pawar said, "Reports that I can be a candidate in the presidential election is absolutely untrue."
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday took a swipe at the BJP, saying it should thank the Sena and the NCP for providing it "human resource" to fill cabinet berths in the Narendra Modi-led central government.
Talking to reporters outside ED's office, Khadse also claimed that inquiry against him was started because he quit the BJP.
Khadse, 68, had resigned from the then Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra cabinet in 2016 after facing allegations regarding the same land deal.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has welcomed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar's recent comments on the new farm laws. Pawar had on Thursday suggested that the new farm laws must not be totally scrapped but the certain amendments should be done.
The government and farmer unions have held 11 rounds of talks so far, the last being on January 22, to break the deadlock and end the protest.
The 71-year-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was asked to depose before the investigating officer at the agency office in Ballard Estate
Sharad Pawar has cleared the air regarding Congress' inclusion in the Third Front, if raised. The 80-year-old leader said that Congress would certainly be part of any such alternative force.
The Sena editorial on Thursday said, "Rahul Gandhi should join hands with Pawar to align all opposition parties." The tea party of opposition leaders should have been organised by Gandhi, it opined
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all-party meeting with the leaders of Jammu and Kashmir today. A total of 14 leaders, including National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, People's Conference leader Sajad Lone and Muzaffar Hussain Baig and Apni Party leader Altaf Bukhari, will attend the meet at the Prime Minister’s residence in Delhi.
Bhartiya Janata Party MP Meenakashi Lekhi on June 23 took jibe at Nationalist Congress Party's 'all opposition meeting'.
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