In yet another indication that things are not hunky-dory between ruling allies BJP and Shiv Sena, Sena mouthpiece Saamna has lashed out at its senior ally for the fatal attack on CPI leader Govind Pansare and the unsolved murder of rationalist and anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar.
In yet another indication that things are not hunky-dory between ruling allies BJP and Shiv Sena, Sena mouthpiece Saamna has lashed out at its senior ally for the fatal attack on CPI leader Govind Pansare and the unsolved murder of rationalist and anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar.
An editorial in the organ, which has Sena president Uddhav Thackeray as editor and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut as executive editor, excoriated and ridiculed chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for the unsolved murders and advised him to get a grip on the system. Fadnavis holds charge of the state home department. The Sena, too, is part of the BJP-led dispensation in the state and the Centre.
The editorial on Monday ridiculed Fadnavis's purported statement that the killers would be nabbed if the police used their strength. "The statement by the chief minister is funny and aimed at blaming the police," it said. "If the chief minister feels that the police are dilly-dallying in locating Pansare's murderers, then this failure is that of the home department," he added.
It also noted that Fadnavis had made a statement about the murderers being at large being a failure of the system, and stressed that "the people have changed the government. You change the system... law and order is not an issue meant for contemplation but for action."
"The chief minister and his associates were changed, but the administrative system remains the same. In case the chief minister has a problem with it, then he must change the face of the system. The government changed, but what changed in Maharashtra? This question exists and tomorrow, the people of the state will themselves throw this question at us," the Sena said, adding that the system was like a horse and the one who could sit on it firmly could rule. It stressed that since power lay with them, there was no point blaming the system.
"The fear of terrorist forces in Maharashtra has disappeared and they are committing murders... there are attempts to suppress progressive movements and those doing this have not come from Pakistan. Dabholkar and Pansare are from here and their murderers too are from the same soil," said the editorial.
It also noted that Fadnavis had assured they would do their best to nab Pansare's murderers and noted that similar assurances had been given by the erstwhile Congress chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and NCP home minister RR Patil after Dabholkar's killing. "In 18 months Dabholkar's murders were not found, and Comrade Govind Pansare's killers are still at large. When Dabholkar was killed, the resignation of the then home minister was sought stridently. Now, the opposition is doing exactly that," the editorial said.
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