The New Year does seem to have begun well at least for the former high-profile Cooperation Minister Harshvardhan Patil in Maharashtra. BJP govt seems determined to clean the skeletons buried in the previous govt cupboard.
Maharashtra’s anti-corruption drive in the cooperative banking sector has begun with the new BJP chief minister asking the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate allegations of misappropriation of Rs. 144 crore in the Dhule district cooperative bank.
Former congress minister Harshwardhan Patil who was the cooperative minister in the previous government and legislative council member Amrish Patel are alleged to be involved in the scam.
The gravamen of the charges against Patil is not taking action against Patel and the then directors of the bank who indulged in financial irregularities including sanctioning unsecured loans.
Sources say preliminary investigations carried out by the ACB earlier had found substance in charges leveled against both Mr Patil and Patel.
NCP-Congress govt has bled cooperative to near death in the state. We have lots of hopes from the new Chief Minister.
There are so many reasons to garner such hopes Ram Kumar the brightest one is this Fadnavis Ministry has no baggage to unload before cleansing can commence and it has already well begun.(HALF DONE)