Remark against Ujjwal Nikam: BJP writes to Election Commission seeking action against Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar

Wadettiwar connected Saturday, May 4, accused Nikam of hiding accusation regarding the 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks. According to Wadettiwar, the past Maharashtra ATS main Hemant Karkare was not killed by violent Ajmal Kasab; alternatively helium fell to a slug fired by policeman affiliated to the RSS.

The Congress person had besides purportedly called Nikam an "anti-national".

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"We person written to the Election Commission of India seeking enactment against Wadettiwar, who is simply a prima campaigner (of Congress), and besides against the Congress enactment for peddling lies," newswire PTI reported, quoting Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar.

Shelar said that arsenic a liable leader, the absorption person should desist from making specified comments that “can assistance the force nation".

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Meanwhile, Shiv Sena person and Rajya Sabha MP Milind Deora said that specified remarks made by the Leader of Opposition successful Maharashtra Assembly are shameful and the absorption enactment is engaged giving “clean chit to Pakistan".

After the outrage, Vijay Wadettiwar clarified, asserting that the arguable statements were not his own, but alternatively cited from the publication authored by SM Mushrif, a erstwhile Inspector General of Police, Maharashtra.

At slightest 166 radical mislaid their lives and galore others sustained injuries successful the Mumbai 26/11 panic attacks perpetrated by Pakistani terrorists. Ajmal Kasab was the sole violent captured live by the Mumbai police. In 2009, Karkare was posthumously honored with the Ashoka Chakra for his valor and sacrifice during the tragic incident.

The saffron party's Ujjwal Nikam, erstwhile nationalist prosecutor, is contetsing against the Congress' Mumbai portion main and Dharavi MLA Varsha Gaikwad.

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The parliamentary constituency was won by BJP's Poonam Mahajan successful 2014 and 2019.

On May 3, Nikam said that entering authorities is simply a caller situation for him. However, helium said helium was not joining authorities for immoderate gains but to lend to the steps taken by the Modi government.

Nikam has handled country's respective precocious illustration cases, including 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts lawsuit and Khairlanji case.

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Published: 06 May 2024, 10:21 AM IST