Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 20 : After former IPS officer Ravindra Patil alleged that he and Supriya Sule and had used Bitcoin scam tainted cash to fund polls, Congress' Nana Patole on Wednesday that his voice is not there in the audio and he is a farming man who don't even understand the concept of Bitcoin.
Congress Maharashtra Unit President and party's candidate from Sakoli, Nana Patole also cast his vote in the Maharashtra Assembly polls today at a polling booth in Bhandara.
Speaking to the media persons, Patole said, "The IPS officer brought by BJP, Ravindra Patil is not even an IPS officer. BJP has become a party of lies. On the eve of elections, they are doing all this. My voice is not there in the audio. I am a farming man; I don't even understand Bitcoin."
He further added that they will file a defamation case against BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi and Patil.
"We have given a legal notice and filed an FIR. We will also file a defamation case against them. Be it Sudhanshu Trivedi or Ravindra Patil. Everything will be clear soon. BJP is only lying. We will fight them legally...I have nothing to do with this. We will file defamation...Our government is going to be formed in Maharashtra, we will conduct a proper inquiry in this," Patole said.
A day before the state of Maharashtra goes to the polls, Ravindranath Patil, former-IPS officer from Pune made a major allegation against NCP-SP Leader and Baramati MP Supriya Sule and Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole.
The former IPS officer alleged that the two leaders had misappropriated bitcoins from a 2018 Cryptocurrency Fraud Case and had used by the same to fund the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly Elections. Patil said that he is ready to support the investigation.
Further, Nana Patole also exuded confidence in winning the Assembly polls.
He said, "In Maharashtra, Maha Vikas Aghadi will form its government under the leadership of Congress. Congress is going to get the maximum number of votes in the state. The way Vinod Tawde was caught distributing money yesterday. He said he was distributing letters, what was the compulsion of the BJP state chief to go and distribute letters? They are trying to lie...By distributing money and liquor, are they doing vote jihad?"
The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance includes the BJP, Shiv Sena, and the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction), while the opposition MVA comprises the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction).
In the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP won 105 seats, Shiv Sena secured 56, and the Congress won 44. In 2014, the BJP claimed 122 seats, Shiv Sena 63, and the Congress 42.