The hypothesis surrounding Ravindra Waikar, a Maharashtra MLA from the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, who’s allegedly planning to modify to Eknath Shinde’s camp, took a stunning activate Saturday as he welcomed Uddhav Thackeray at a celebration workplace in Mumbai. The previous Maharashtra minister had been distancing himself from the get together packages for some time.
Waikar welcomed the UBT Sena chief on the get together’s workplace in Jogeshwari throughout his go to in Mumbai Northwest Lok Sabha constituency immediately, elevating many eyebrows. Waikar represents Jogeshwari meeting constituency.
A photograph of Waikar welcoming Thackeray has gone viral on social media.
As soon as an in depth aide of Thackeray, Waikar’s absence in the course of the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief’s earlier visits to Jogeshwari had fuelled speculations of him leaping ship after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) not too long ago summoned him in a cash laundering case associated to alleged irregularities within the development of a luxurious resort on civic plot.
The cash laundering probe of the ED towards Waikar stems from an FIR of the Financial Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police, wherein it was alleged that Waikar illegally obtained approval for the development of a five-star resort on a civic plot reserved for a backyard, inflicting an enormous loss to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company. In January, the ED raided seven properties linked to Waikar, and he was additionally questioned for over 9 hours.
In the meantime, in an fascinating flip of occasions, the Mumbai civic physique, in February, knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket that it was withdrawing its earlier order that had revoked permission granted to Waikar to the five-star and in addition submitted that it’s going to rethink his illustration.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut had earlier alleged that Waikar had been threatened with arrest if he didn’t depart the get together.
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