Mumbai: NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday that he would visit the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office on September 27.
Addressing the media here, Pawar also questioned the ED’s move deadline, which comes before the Maharashtra Assembly elections on October 21.
Pawar said that he would go to the ED office at 2 pm on September 27 to submit “whatever information” he had sought regarding the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam.
“I will be mostly out of Mumbai for assembly poll campaigning. The agency officials shouldn’t misunderstand that I am unavailable. I will go to them and give them whatever information they want,” Pawar said.
Pawar said he believes in the Constitution of India.
“Maharashtra follows the ideology of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. We don’t bow down before the Delhi takht (throne),” Pawar said.
The ED filed the money laundering case against Pawar, his nephew Ajit Pawar and 70 others in the bank scam on the directions of the Bombay high court.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the ED registered the case on the basis of the High Court’s directive. Fadnavis told reporters, “It would be wrong to blame a political motive for the ED action and call it political vendetta (by the BJP government).”
