Now, allegations of land grab against another Maha minister

The Congress also alleged that the Water Conservation Minister purposely kept the “illegal” land deal under wraps and did not disclose it in his electoral affidavits. The party has threatened to approach court against Mahajan, seeking his disqualification as an MLA for “concealing the details of his land ownership from election affidavits in subsequent Assembly elections (after 2002)”.

Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said Mahajan had “no moral or legal right to continue as minister after a series of misappropriations”.

Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant said “in 2002, Mahajan, along with Khadse, forcibly and illegally acquired around 5 acres at Mangaon village in Bhusawal taluka in Jalgaon district under the garb of starting a cooperative sugar mill, which never came up”.