{"id":315285,"date":"2019-09-27T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315285"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:58:59","slug":"citing-law-and-order-situation-sharad-pawar-drops-plan-to-visit-ed-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/citing-law-and-order-situation-sharad-pawar-drops-plan-to-visit-ed-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Law and Order situation, Sharad Pawar drops plan to visit ED office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315286 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pawar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/pawar.jpg 647w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/pawar-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/pawar-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/pawar-551x420.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, who had declared that he would go to the Enforcement Directorate office in Mumbai on Friday dropped his plan citing law and order situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NCP workers had staged protests in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra when Pawar was named in a money laundering case earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have imposed prohibitory orders outside the ED\u2019s office ahead of Pawar\u2019s visit to the agency office today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But hours before Pawar\u2019s expected visit to the ED office, the probe agency\u00a0sent him an email that there was no need for him to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pawar in a series of tweets made an announcement that he would not visit ED office today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI had emailed a letter yesterday, intimating the Enforcement Directorate of my visit to their office. In response to my letter, the authority (ED) informed me that my presence in not required today and I will be duly informed if required, in relation to above mentioned matter,\u201d Pawar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cIn this context, the senior police officers from Mumbai Police personally met and apprised me about law and order situation in Mumbai and Maharashtra State, which they felt would lead to some disturbance and therefore requested me to avoid today\u2019s visit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cConsidering the above request and to avoid any kind of inconvenience to the common man in Maharashtra, I have decided to not visit to the ED office,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, who had declared that he would go to the Enforcement Directorate office in Mumbai on Friday dropped his plan citing law and order situation. NCP workers had staged protests in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra when Pawar was named in a money laundering case earlier this week. 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