Will file suit over irregularities in DP: Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil

Mumbai: The Congress has threatened to move court against the alleged financial irregularities while approving the new Development Control and Promotion Rules for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The state government is not serious about probing the allegations of irregularities in the DP 2034, said Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Opposition leader in the state Legislative Assembly on Sunday.

In December last year, Mr Vikhe-Patil had kicked up a storm, saying chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had stuck a Rs 10,000 crore deal with leading builders and developers for approving the DP 2034. More than 25,000 changes were made at the instance of the chief minister in the DP, he alleged.

Addressing the media on the eve of the budget session, the Opposition leader said he would file a suit in the high court over the DP issue. “It has taken a lot of time to collect the evidence as the BMC was willing to share the documents. But now I have sufficient proof and I will file the petition in the high court,” he added.

Asked if he would withdraw the public interest litigation later, he said he was ‘not Uddhav Thackeray’ to make a U-turn, in an apparent dig at the Shiv Sena chief who has formed a fresh alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party despite earlier declarations that he would not.

Mr Vikhe-Patil also demanded that the state government should give a complete loan waiver up to the year 2018. “The state government's loan waiver scheme for farmers has flopped miserably. The loan waiver was needed to bring down farmers' suicides. However, due to its improper implementation, the government has failed to curb them,” he said.

Dhananjay Munde, the Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council, said that the state government is misleading the people on the issue of Maratha, Muslim and Dhangar reservation.