India, July 20 -- For the last one week, the Congress has been raising the issue of a honey-trap scam in Maharashtra to which as many as 72 politicians, bureaucrats and former officials have allegedly fallen prey. On Saturday, senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar claimed that the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was also pulled down with the help of the same honey trap. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, however, on Friday stated that no complaints had been received about any honey trap.

"Although the CM denied it, the government and the opposition have a lot of information about the honey trap," alleged Wadettiwar. "We are keeping mum because we don't want to destroy anyone's career." The former leader of...