Mumbai, Feb. 16 -- Ajit Pawar-led NCP leader and Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar held a meeting here at 6 p.m. on Monday to take stock of the political situation arising due to an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raid and sealing of the state secretariat (Mantralaya) office of her party leader and Food & Drug Authority Minister Narhari Zirwal last week.
Opposition parties in the state - Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena as well as the Congress had demanded Zirwal's resignation on the issue.
Meanwhile, the ACB raided the residence of the accused clerk Rajendra Dherange in Nashik district who allegedly caught taking a bribe last week, which has put huge pressure on the NCP to which Zirwal belongs.
Meanwhile, the accused clerk Dherange who was arrested by...