He started his slugfest with Fadnavis last week when he alleged that the former Maharashtra CM was the “mastermind” of the state’s drug trafficking business.įadnavis had then dismissed the allegations as a “fuska fataka” (damp firecracker), promising to deliver a “bomb” about Malik’s alleged underworld connections post Diwali.Īlso read: Nawab Malik - UP-born Maharashtra minister becomes household name with Aryan Khan case Kurla land dealĪddressing a press conference Tuesday, BJP leader Fadnavis said the land in question is a 2.8-acre plot at L.B.S.
He has been holding press conferences almost daily since October, poking holes in the Narcotics Control Bureau’s alleged drug bust involving actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, and targeting BJP leaders. Malik is the NCP’s chief spokesperson, president of its Mumbai unit, and a cabinet minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. He said he now plans to drop a “hydrogen bomb” exposing Fadnavis’ links with the underworld the following morning. Malik, in his own press conference following Fadnavis’ Tuesday, strongly denied “any relation with either Haseena Parkar or any gang lords” and maintained that the land was purchased legally.
The underworld-linked men Fadnavis mentioned are a 1993 Mumbai blast convict, Sardar Shahawali Khan, and the “right-hand man” of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar, Saleem Patel. Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis, the former Maharashtra chief minister and current Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, has dropped the ‘bomb’ he had promised after Diwali, alleging that a company owned by the family of NCP minister Nawab Malik bought land at a throwaway price from two men linked to the underworld.