Ruling BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, who has been arrested in connection with the attempt to murder Shinde-led Shiv Sena leader Mahesh Gaikwad, has opened the pandora’s box by alleging that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had unleashed a “goonda raj” in Kalyan.
Talking to a television channel while he was being taken by the police after his arrest in connection with the Friday night shoot-out, Ganpat Gaikwad said, “I resorted to firing because my son was being manhandled at the police station right in front of the police officials. Because of the police intervention, my son survived the attack on Mahesh Gaikwad’s men”.
“I bought a plot of land ten years ago. We paid money to the owner of that place, two times three times they did not come to sign the documents, then we approached the court and we won from the court. When 7/12 is in the name of our company, Mahesh Gaikwad came and occupied it by force,” Ganpat Gaikwad said.
“Even on the first day, they were requested by me not to take possession by force, and bring the order from the court,” Ganpat Gaikwad said.
“They (Mahesh Gaikwad’s men) bullied us even today, those people who broke into the compound and forcibly grabbed the land for which my son had come to the police station to lodge the complaint,” the BJP MLA said.
“And in front of the police station he (Mahesh Gaikwad) brought around 500 to 500 people. My son was leaving the police station at that time. They pushed my son, I couldn’t bear it,” Ganpat said.
