Irrigation scam: Ajit Pawar says govt. free to do whatever it wants

Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Friday avoided commenting on the Devendra Fadnavis-led government's decision to order an inquiry against him in connection with the irrigation scam, saying the latter is free to do whatever it wants.

"It's their government and they are free to do what they want. They had said the same before the elections and now they are doing it," Pawar told the media here while responding to reports that the Maharashtra Government has given a green signal to an inquiry against him by the state's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the irrigation scam.

Meanwhile, NCP leader Shashikant Shinde said that his party does not have any issue with the inquiry.

"We do not have any problem. The truth will come out in the inquiry," said Shinde.

Earlier in the day, Fadnavis accepted the proposal of the ACB to conduct an open inquiry against Pawar and state NCP president Sunil Tatkare in connection with the irrigation scam.

The ACB had proposed the inquiry when Maharashtra was under President's rule before the October assembly elections.