Team News Riveting
Mumbai, November 9
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Nawab Malik has “threatened” to drop a “hydrogen bomb” on Wednesday to expose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis.
The “warning” came after former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Fadnavis plunged into the on-going tussle between Malik and Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, levelling serious allegations against the NCP leader. Malik has launched a crusade against Wankhede after he led a raid on a cruise ship in which actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and some others were arrested.
The NCP leader’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was also arrested by the NCB earlier this year in an alleged drugs case and was later granted bail by a court. On November 1, Devendra Fadnavis had said Malik’s attack on the NCB was an attempt to put pressure on officials of the anti-drugs agency so that the case against his son-in-law is weakened.
In a fresh volley, Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday alleged that state minister Nawab Malik and his family members entered into land deals with people associated with the underworld. Malik earlier this month sought to link the BJP with an alleged narcotics dealer by tweeting the latter’s photograph with the former chief minister’s wife Amruta Fadnavis. Malik had also posted a similar photograph of Devendra Fadnavis with alleged the drug dealer.
Fadnavis had then said he would make revelations about Malik’s underworld links after Diwali and also share the same with NCP president Sharad Pawar.
On Tuesday, Fadnavis said, Nawab Malik and his family members were part of a company that purchased land in Kurla (area of Mumbai) at a very low rate by making some fictitious documents. “There are four such land purchase deals where I can firmly say that Malik has entered into land deals with the underworld,” he said, adding that the land was purchased from Sardar Shahwali Khan and Saleem Ishaq Patel, who were convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Meanwhile, Nawab Malik refuted Fadnavis’ charge that the former had bought land parcels from the people linked with the underworld, saying he will drop a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday and expose the “underworld links” of the BJP leader.
Malik said he did not buy any property from anyone who is linked to the underworld or is a convict in a bomb blast case. He said by trying to link him with the underworld and bomb blast convicts, Fadnavis is maligning his image.
