Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dhananjay Munde resigned as a minister Tuesday following mounting pressure over the alleged complicity of his aide in the murder of a village head in Maharashtra’s Beed district. Munde tendered the resignation after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and NCP chief Ajit Pawar met late Monday night, and decided that she should go.
The charge sheet filed last week in the Santosh Deshmukh murder case stating Munde’s name along with his aide Walmiki Karad further raised pressure for Munde’s resignation. Deshmukh was abducted, tortured and killed on the evening of December 9, 2024. Shocking videos and photos of the crime went viral on social media, causing outrage and demands of action.
It is claimed that Munde first did not want to resign and requested more time to spell out his position in the state assembly. But Fadnavis and Pawar, however, denied his request and left him with no choice but to bow out.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader admitted that everything Fadnavis wanted was Munde’s resignation from the floor of the house since Karad’s arrest. Although Pawar and Munde tried to delay the decision, the force of the crime described in the charge sheet had no such room for reconsideration.
Munde, a two-term legislator from Parli in Beed, was a key leader in the NCP. But his future in politics is now up in the air as the controversy continues. The state government wants to distance itself from the scandal by having the resignation of Subramanyam, who was responsible for overseeing the bulk of the work at Jankipet Sangha Seva Sadan. But the investigations into the case continue with the promise that all the involved will be brought to justice.
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