Amid growing pressure over the murder of Beed sarpanch, Maharashtra minister and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Dhananjay Munde resigned from his post on Tuesday. Munde was the minister of food, civil supplies and consumer protection. He has served as Maharashtra cabinet minister in previous governments also.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that he has accepted Dhananjay Munde's resignation and sent it to the Governor for further action. However, Dhananjay Munde has resigned citing health reasons.
Munde is a member of the Maharashtra assembly from Beed’s Parali constituency. After winning from Beed by defeating Sharad Pawar faction’s Rajasaheb Deshmukh in 2024 assembly polls, Dhananjay Munde was inducted to the cabinet of the state, with food, civil supplies and consumer protection under him.
Under the previous Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, Munde was also the guardian minister of Beed district, his hometown. Before that, under the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government from 2019 to 2022, he served as the minister of social justice and special assistance.
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On the other hand, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thackeray said, "Just resignation is not enough. This government should be dismissed. Law and order has deteriorated in Maharashtra in the last two and a half years. If no action is taken and the government is not dismissed, then who will come to invest in the state."
The demand for Dhananjay Munde's resignation had intensified after the arrest of one of his close associates in the murder of a sarpanch in Beed district, .
In fact, some pictures of the time of the murder of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed came out, after which the pressure on him increased.
It is being said in the local media reports that Dhananjay Munde had a meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and CM Fadnavis in which he was asked to resign.
Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh was kidnapped and brutally murdered. This incident gave rise to outrage in the entire state.
But ever since the pictures of Deshmukh's murder have gone viral, the atmosphere has become more heated.
The investigation of this murder was handed over to the CID and it had included the pictures of the brutality done during the murder in its charge sheet.
In these pictures, the accused is seen brutally beating Santosh Deshmukh and in one picture he is laughing while beating Deshmukh.
On Tuesday, activist Manoj Jarange Patil met the Deshmukh family and during this, Santosh Deshmukh's brother Dhananjay Deshmukh burst into tears. He also demanded to remove these pictures from the internet.
Prakash Kumar Pandey
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