Zirwal a self-made politician, shocking that CM initiated action against his minister’s office: Supriya | Pune News

Pune: NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Tuesday came out in support of food and drug administration (FDA) minister Narhari Zirwal over the ACB action in his office in Mantralaya last week and said she was shocked to see the chief minister initiating a raid in his minister’s office.Supriya also demanded that chief minister Devendra Fadnavis reveal who gave the tip-off for the raid in Zirwal’s office. She said, “The chief minister sits on the sixth floor and the ACB conducted the raid on the floor below it. This shows that the corruption was happening right under his nose.”

A team of ACB arrested a clerk, Raju Dherange, from the FDA office in Mantralaya while he was accepting a bribe of Rs35,000 last week. Zirwal was in Delhi when the action was taken by the ACB. Zirwal admitted that the action was a blot on the department and initiated an inquiry at the department-level.While opposition parties, including Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT), demanded Zirwal’s resignation, Sule came out in support of him. Interacting with reporters in Delhi, she said, “I have known Zirwal for many years and we worked together. He is a self-made man and he took a lot of effort to reach this height. It is quite shocking to see an action by the ACB in his Mantralaya office.”She said, “The chief minister holds the home portfolio, under which the ACB is. The office of the chief minister’s cabinet colleague was raided, which is quite shocking. The chief minister needs to give a detailed statement on the entire case.”