The BJP on Monday demanded resignation of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government headed by Uddhav Thackeray in the wake of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh's claim that the state's Home Minister Anil Deshmukh set a Rs 100-crore collection target for the police every month. The saffron party also sought a CBI inquiry into the allegation.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour in Lok Sabha amidst protests by the Shiv Sena and the NCP, BJP members said that the letter reflected that those who are in the government were using officials in collecting money but the chief minister so far has not uttered a single word on the issue.
However, Shiv Sena defended the MVA government and claimed that the BJP has been hatching a conspiracy to defame the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP dispensation for the last 14 months so that a saffron party government can be installed in Mumbai.
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