Sena-BJP ally seeks stay on Maharashtra government decisions

MUMBAI: Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna leader Raju Shetty, an ally of the Sena-BJP-RPI(A) alliance in Maharashtra today wrote to the state Governor to stay decisions taken during the last one month, with an eye on the forthcoming assembly elections.

In a letter to the Maharashtra Governor CH Vidyasagar Rao, Shetty said that between August 5 to September 6, the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led Maharashtra issued 1,071 Government Resolutions (GRs).

He claimed that these decisions were taken with a vested interest to influence voters and urged the Governor to stay such decisions as well as approve only those decisions which are important.

Maharashtra state BJP President Devendra Fadanvis also said that after the Sena-BJP government comes to power, it would review all recent decisions of the Congress-NCP government and scrap them.

When asked about it, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said that Sena-BJP alliance would never get the opportunity to do so.

"All the decisions are transparent and taken in the interests of the people and that is our only vested interest," Chavan said.

Chavan said that decision making in any government is an ongoing process. "After decisions are approved in cabinet, the process of issuing Government Resolutions take some time and accordingly, they have been taken," he said.