Team News Riveting
Mumbai, April 5
Veteran NCP leader, Dilip Walse Patil, has taken over as Maharashtra’s new Home Minister following the resignation of Anil Deshmukh today.
The assignment added significance for Patil as the state home ministry is in a thick of controversy. The resignation of Deshmukh came after several corruption and extortion charges were levelled against him by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Earlier, the Bombay High Court ordered CBI to conduct the preliminary inquiry within 15 days over the allegations against Anil Deshmukh by former Mumbai Police Commissioner, Param Bir Singh.
Earlier, Anil Deshmukh met NCP Chief Sharad Pawar and other top party leaders before putting in his papers on “moral grounds”. The NCP leaders said Deshmukh voluntarily offered to resign following the controversy.
Seven times MLA Dilip Walse Patil, was state’s Minister of Excise and Labour before taking over the home department.
Dilip Walse Patil is a son of former Congress MLA Dattatray Walse Patil. Patil fought his first election in 1990 from Ambegaon Assembly on a Congress ticket, and he emerged as the winner.
He has been personal assistant (PA) to Sharad Pawar and is considered very close to the NCP leader.
