Munde Will Be Back In Cabinet After Case Cools Down: Sena Mouthpiece

An editorial piece which appeared in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena's Marathi daily print newspaper 'Saamna' claimed on Wednesday that the resignation of Dhananjay Munde on Tuesday was a mere "eyewash" scripted by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar to hoodwink people, after assuring Munde that he would be taken back into the ministerial cabinet after the Massajog village official Santosh Deshmukh murder case cools down.

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Therefore, neither Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis nor NCP leader and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar can claim that Munde's resignation was sought on moral grounds, the editorial stated.

The 'Saamna' editorial called 'Agralekh' in Marathi stated that instead of seeking Munde's resignation, he should have been sacked from the cabinet and his claim of having quit on moral grounds is a "cruel joke".

Incidentally, Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, who is the executive editor of the Marathi daily, is widely believed to have written the editorial, sources said.