Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- The Opposition parties in Maharashtra on Monday slammed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s move of summoning Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray and former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi's son Unmesh, in an IL&FS-related case.

"This is nothing but bulldozing tactics by the Bharatiya Janata Party government against the Opposition. Mr Thackeray had raised several pertinent issues before the people before the Lok Sabha elections and is now being targeted," said state Congress president Balasaheb Thorat here. Leader of Opposition in the state Council and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Dhananjay Munde, said that Mr Thackeray had exposed the BJP-Shiv Sena during the election campaign and hence ...