Mumbai : No sooner that senior BJP legislator Raj Purohit’s sting operation video, purportedly showing him making scathing comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, started airing on news channels, the NCP grabbed the opportunity to ridicule the BJP.
While NCP chief Sharad Pawar told in Aurangabad that the Purohit episode reflected the general sentiment of many of the BJP MLAs, party’s face in Thane district and MLA Jitendra Awhad put up hoardings in support of Purohit in Thane.
The hoardings that read ‘Raj Purohit aage badho, hum tumhare saath hain’ also the senior BJP leader from Mumbai a ‘Mard’ and someone who said all that others didn’t dare to say about the party and its leadership so far.
Speaking to FPJ, Awhad said that he supports and agrees to all that Purohit had said in the alleged sting operation video.
Interestingly, Purohit had allegedly called MNS chief Raj Thackeray is a ‘bogus leader’ in the same video and had added that Thackeray is communal and lacked caliber of becoming even a local leader. When asked if he supports Purohit’s alleged statements on Thackeray too, Awhad chose not to comment.
Meanwhile Purohit has claimed that the voice in the video was not his, and has demanded that the video be sent for forensic testing.
He has even issued a statement saying that he respects both Modi and Shah and that Thackeray is an ideal leader of Maharashtra.
