Meanwhile, on Tuesday, villagers, including murdered village official Santosh Deshmukh's brother Dhananjay Deshmukh, held a protest fast demanding that all the accused should be arrested.
BJP MLA Suresh Dhas also produced a "bribe rate card" which Munde had allegedly charged to give favourable transfers to officials in the Maharashtra Agriculture ministry.
Anti-corruption activist Anjali Damania, at a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday, accused Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde of a scam in the Agriculture Department.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said in Delhi that Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's position about the resignation of state Food & Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde of the NCP is the "clear and official" position.
BJP MLA Suresh Dhas has made a sensational allegation that a meeting to discuss an extortion deal in Beed was held between Maharashtra food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde's associate Valmik Karad and officials of a power company at Munde's official residence in the Beed district, in June 2024.
Dhananjay Munde in his defense said the clip was being circulated on social media by 'distorting' his comments to'deliberately' defame him.
Interestingly, National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah had, during the mega anti-BJP rally in Kolkata on Saturday, called the EVM the "chor machine" and demanded that the ballot paper system is brought back.
