Raut claims Sena min seen with ‘cash bag' in video; it's just clothes, says Shirsat
Shiv Sena
(UBT) MP
Sanjay Raut
Friday posted a video on X purportedly showing social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat of Shiv Sena sitting in a room with a partially opened bag containing what look like bundles of currency notes.
Raut said Union home minister Amit Shah should take note. Shirsat rubbished the claim, report Chittaranjan Tembhekar & Chaitanya Marpakwar.
The allegation came a day after it emerged that Shirsat had received a notice from the income tax department seeking an explanation for increase in his financial worth between the 2019 and 2024 assembly elections from Rs 3.3 crore to Rs 35 crore. Last month, Shirsat and his son withdrew from a hotel deal after an opposition outcry.
Shirsat said, "The house seen in the video is my home. It shows I am sitting (clad in a vest) in my bedroom. My pet dog and a bag are also seen. This means I have just returned from travel and removed my clothes. If I have to keep such a big bag of money, is there a dearth of cupboards?"
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Posting a video on X purportedly showing Sanjay Shirsat sitting in a room along with a partially opened bag containing what look like bundles of currency notes, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said in his post, "I feel pity for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis! How many more times will he just sit and watch his reputation being torn to shreds? Helplessness has another name: Fadnavis!"
Criticizing the opposition for raking up the issue "deliberately," social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat of the Shiv Sena said, "They see (currency) notes even in cloth bags."
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He added, "Had there been money, I would have kept it in the cupboard."
Asked if there were only clothes there, the minister said, "Of course. There were clothes in it (the bag)."
Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray said sarcastically that Mahayuti legislators were showing disregard for the rule framed by the Modi govt that a person should not handle cash beyond Rs 2 lakh on a given day. Raut and Thackeray expressed their apprehensions about whether action would be taken against Shirsat and Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad (who assaulted MLA hostel canteen staffers) when their videos, they said, were "good enough to prove their crime.
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Aaditya said, "Many Sanjays are in the news these days. One Sanjay was seen fighting in the canteen wearing shorts and a vest. Another Sanjay was seen sitting in shorts and a vest with a bag full of money. It seems that all the MLAs are advertising wearing vests. That is why (Dy CM Eknath) Shinde must have visited Delhi on Guru Purnima to touch the feet of his guru."
Aaditya further alleged, "We saw one of the 50 'khoke' (cash bags) that he took to join the Shinde-led Sena… He himself is a minister, there were allegations against him that there was an attempt to grab a hotel, an attempt to grab land, and CM Devendra Fadnavis has ordered an inquiry. But the question is, will Shinde, the boss of these MLAs, take action against them?"
Shirsat said, "Such claims won't affect my (political) career."
Shirsat had told the media on Thursday that he had sought more time to reply to the I-T department's notice asking for an explanation for the increase in his financial worth. However, he had to backtrack on his remark that Kalyan MP Shrikant Shinde had also received a similar notice and later clarified that he had no knowledge of Shrikant Shinde receiving any I-T notice.
Shirsat, an MLA from Sambhajinagar West, had declared Rs 44.78 crore in cash and liabilities of Rs 26.45 crore in loans from multiple banks in his election affidavit in Oct 2024. His declared holdings included agricultural land valued at Rs 4.37 crore and flats in Mumbai and Sambhajinagar collectively worth Rs 4.7 crore.
Shirsat has been the target of AIMIM's former Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel and leader of opposition in the legislative council Ambadas Danve over the assets issue.
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