Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday gave a clean chit to his son Aditya in Sushant Singh Rajput Death case and asserted that they were clean in this matter. Launching a scathing attack on Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut, the Maharashtra CM alleged that she had slandered Mumbai, its police and all ‘sons of Maharashtra’ including his own son Aaditya Thackeray.
"Someone who committed suicide is now a Bihar son. He may be, but because of him, you maligned sons of Maharashtra. You even maligned my son Aaditya. So whatever you said, keep it yourself. We are clean," he said. Thackeray stirred controversy by taunting Kangana that unlike her state (Himachal Pradesh), Maharashtra grows tulsi and not "ganja".
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Uddhav gives clean chit to son Aditya in SSR death case: Key Points
- "They don't know in our house we grow tulsi not ganja. Ganja fields are in your state, you know where, not in our Maharashtra," he said, in a pointed attack on Ms Ranaut who comes from Himachal Pradesh and has relentlessly attacked the state government as a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.
- "I'm proud of my Mumbai Police. The police who caught a terrorist alive - the only police. I'm proud of the police," he said, in reference to the capture and trial of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab.
- Mr Thackeray's Shiv Sena-led coalition government has found itself in the crosshairs of Ms Ranaut and other supporters of the BJP, which is in opposition in the state, over the death of Sushant Singh in June this year.
- Mumbai Police said it was a case of suicide but egged on by social media theories, the actor's family filed a complaint against Rhea Chakraborty and her relatives, accusing her of stealing his money and driving him to end his life.
- Fanned by tabloid-style media coverage, the complaint spawned three separate inquiries by the Central Bureau of The investigation, the Enforcement Directorate and the Narcotics Control Bureau which have not unearthed anything against Ms Chakraborty so far except that she helped Sushant Singh Rajput buy banned drugs.
- However, Ms Ranaut and others like her have now pivoted to attacking the state government and the police for other issues like allegedly curbing their right to free speech.
