Will put coronvirus in Fadnavis' mouth if I find it Sena MLA

    Buldhana, Apr 19 (PTI) Amid the row over Remdesivir
supply, Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad has said if he would have
found the coronavirus, he would have it into the mouth of BJP
leader Devendra Fadnavis, sparking protests by the opposition
party here in Maharashtra.
    Former chief minister Fadnavis is being targeted by
the ruling parties in Maharashtra for objecting to Mumbai
police's grilling of a pharma company's top executive over
alleged stocking of vials of Remdesivir, which is in high
demand for treating COVID-19 patients.
    Talking to reporters here on Saturday, Gaikwad, who is
an MLA from Buldhana, asked what would Fadnavis have done if
he was the chief minister at this time of the pandemic.
    Rather than supporting the state ministers, BJP
leaders are mocking them and looking at how this government
(comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) fails, he said.
    "Hence, if I would have found the coronavirus, I would
have put it into the mouth of Devendra Fadnavis," he said.
    Gaikwad alleged that Fadnavis, and BJP leaders Pravin
Darekar and Chandrakant Patil were doing petty politics over
the pandemic and distribution of Remdesivir injections.
    The Centre asked Remdesivir manufacturing companies in
Maharashtra not to supply the drug to the state. They are also
not providing the required medical oxygen to Maharashtra,
Gaikwad claimed.
    They are providing Remdesivir injections to Gujarat
and supplying 50,000 vials of the drug to that state free of
cost from a BJP office in Maharashtra, while people are dying
in Maharashtra, he charged.
    "Such low and petty politics is being done by the
central government and Fadnavis," he claimed.
    Is this the time to do politics? The Centre and
Fadnavis should be shameful of their acts, he said.
    Following Gaikwad's remarks, BJP workers staged
protests at various places in Buldhana on Sunday and burnt the
MLA's effigies.
    Fadnavis on Sunday said he has not done anything wrong
and was not afraid of any inquiry against him. PTI COR CLS
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