{"id":504370,"date":"2024-03-11T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504370"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:05:35","slug":"ed-sharad-pawar-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/ed-sharad-pawar-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharad Pawar says BJP is misusing Enforcement Directorate to create fear among opposition leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday alleged the Modi government is misusing agencies like the Enforcement Directorate to create fear among opposition leaders and called the ED supporting party of the BJP. Speaking to the media in Pune ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections, Pawar also claimed that steps were being taken to influence elections with the help of agencies like the ED and candidates were being threatened not to contest from the opposition side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed out figures of the ED\u2019s action between 2005 and 2023 and claimed a total number of 5806 cases were registered and only 25 of them were disposed off. Pawar said the disposal rate is 0.42% and the conviction rate is just 0.4%. He added ED\u2019s budget has gone up from Rs 300 crore in 2022 to Rs 404 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"mr\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0908\u0921\u0940 \u0906\u0924\u093e \u090f\u0915 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u0924\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u092f\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0923\u093e \u0930\u093e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u0947\u0932\u0940 \u0928\u0938\u0942\u0928 \u0924\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u091a\u093e \u092e\u093f\u0924\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0915\u094d\u0937 \u092e\u094d\u0939\u0923\u0942\u0928 \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0930\u0924 \u0905\u0938\u0932\u094d\u092f\u093e\u091a\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0938\u0924\u0902\u092f, \u0928\u0945\u0936\u0928\u0932\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f \u0915\u0945\u093e\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938\u091a\u0947 \u0905\u0927\u094d\u092f\u0915\u094d\u0937 \u0936\u0930\u0926 \u092a\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u092f\u093e\u0902\u091a\u0940 \u091f\u094b\u0915\u0926\u093e\u0930 \u091f\u0940\u0915\u093e. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Election2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Election2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SharadPawar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SharadPawar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ED<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Abhijit Karande (@AbhijitKaran25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbhijitKaran25\/status\/1767055373545144800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Between 2005 and 2023, 2 governments were in power including the UPA of which NCP(SP) was also a part. During the UPA regime, the ED invested 26 leaders, of which 5 were from Congress and 3 from the BJP. It shows that during the UPA regime ED\u2019s actions was not politically motivated, but after 2014, not a single BJP leader has been questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The former Maharashtra chief minister said these figures raise a doubt if the ED\u2019s actions under the Modi government are politically motivated. He said this indicates the ED has become a supporting party of the BJP. Pawar said it seems leaders of the BJP know in advance about ED\u2019s actions and it looks as if the orders are coming directly from the BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Pawar further added during the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh the ED was not misused but now the investigative agency is being misused to create fear among the opposition leaders. According to reports the ED has attached assets of a sugar mill owned by the company of NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar, the grand nephew of Sharad Pawar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharad Pawar pointed out figures of the ED\u2019s action between 2005 and 2023 and claimed a total number of 5806 cases were registered and only 25 of them were disposed off. Pawar said the disposal rate is 0.42% and the conviction rate is just 0.4%. He added ED\u2019s budget has gone up from Rs 300 crore in 2022 to Rs 404 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sharad Pawar says BJP is misusing Enforcement Directorate to create fear among opposition leaders","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,1497,4,125714],"tags":[161503,1258,5455],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11174856\/sharad-pawar.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504370"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504370"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->