Letter conflict: BJP says Maharashtra CM Thackeray ought to respect Governor’s put up

Amid a letter conflict between Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the problem of crimes in opposition to girls, state BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Wednesday stated the CM ought to respect the governor’s put up.

Days after Koshyari wrote a letter to Thackeray for convening a particular session of the state Assembly in opposition to the backdrop of the Sakinaka rape and homicide, the CM on Monday hit again, saying the governor ought to request the Centre to name a session of Parliament to debate points in regards to the security of girls and rising assaults on them.

In his letter to the governor, Thackeray gave figures of crimes in opposition to girls in BJP-ruled states, together with Uttarakhand, the house state of Koshyari. Thackeray said that such “instructions” by the governor may stoke a brand new controversy” and are damaging to the democratic parliamentary procedures.

On Wednesday, state BJP chief Patil stated, “CM Thackeray should respect the constitutional post of governor. If he is pointing fingers at other states, the decision to call for a special session would be theirs only. He should focus on improving the situation here.”

Patil was speaking to reporters after BJP’s Sanjay Upadhyay filed his nomination for the subsequent month’s Rajya Sabha bypoll, necessitated as a result of loss of life of the sitting MP Rajiv Satav.

A 34-year-old girl was allegedly raped inside a stationary tempo parked on the roadside within the Sakinaka space of Mumbai earlier this month. The accused, a 45-year-old man, brutalised the sufferer by inserting a rod in her personal components. The girl died throughout therapy at a hospital.