Mumbai: Two days before the poll campaign for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections is going to be over in Maharashtra, a suspicious bag was seen being brought from the chartered plane used by union minister of Commerce and Industries Suresh Prabhu at the Dhule airport on Thursday.
Soon, rumours were doing the rounds that the bag carried cash to distribute among the voters. Dhule collector Rahul Rekhawar said that a probe is going on in the matter.
The Dhule Lok Sabha constituency will go to polls on April 29 and the campaigning will be over on April 27. Suresh Prabhu, who has been on a poll tour to North and Western Maharashtra, held a public rally at Dhule on Thursday and addressed the media at Shirdi on Friday.
A video clip viral on social media showed a bag being brought from the plane by which Prabhu had arrived at the airport. In the clip, an Innova (MH 18-BC4477) vehicle is seen going towards the plane. It also shows two men carring a heavy bag and putting it in the vehicle before the vehicle leaves the airport.
The vehicle belongs to Naresh Agrawal, who is the uncle of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Anup Agrawal. When contacted for his reaction, Anup said that he would speak later and disconnected the call. District Collector Rahul Rekhawar said that the incident is of Thursday.
“It was not a bag but a box. The probe is still going on and we will submit our report to the Election Commission,” he said. Meanwhile, Dr Subhash Bhamare, the sitting BJP Member of Parliament and union minister of state for defence is pitted against Kunal Patil of Congress. Patil is the sitting legislator of Congress from Dhule (rural) constituency.
