Ramdas Kadam blames BJP for double murders

Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader and environment minister Ramdas Kadam has blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the double murder of Sena workers at Ahmednagar on Saturday and demanded that the state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who heads the home department, should intervene. He said that Ahmednagar has turned into ‘Uttar Pradesh’, where the law and order is in a bad shape.

Mr Kadam’s reaction came after Sanjay Kotkar and Vasant Thube were shot dead. Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) MLA Sangram Jagtap and three others have been arrested for the double murder.

“BJP, NCP and Congress together are trying to terrorise the area. This is the failure of the chief minister. All the accused in the murder case should get death sentence” Kadam said in a press conference in Ahmednagar.

He even criticised that NCP and BJP has secrete relations. “BJP MLA Shivaji Kardile and NCP MLA Sangram Jagtap are relatives. On one had BJP shows that it is in alliance with us and on the other hand it is troubling Sena,” Kadam told reporters.

However, NCP has denied the allegations by the Sena minister. “The murder case was out of family feud. Let the law takes its own course. It is not correct to make it as a political issue,” said NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik.

Congress has also termed the allegations by Mr Kadam as baseless. “It was an unfortunate thing. The police should take quick action. But allegations against us are baseless,”Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant said.

Earlier in 2006, NCP leader Padamsinh Patil, and others were charged of his cousin’s murder  and then Congress leader Pawan Raje Nimbalkar.