MUMBAI, DEC 29    :    The Mumbai Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday demanded an investigation into the resignation of Radheshyam Mopalwar, a former bureaucrat and high-level officer in the Maharashtra government who was previously the Director of War Room-Infrastructure Projects.

Reacting strongly to the development, AAP Mumbai President Preeti Sharma-Menon alleged that the real reasons behind Mopalwar’s resignation are ‘wholesale corruption’ now coming to light.

“While some people are saying that he has quit to enter politics, the truth is that a lot of his corruption has surfaced, but nothing is being probed. We demand that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis probe his role in the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Mahamarg scam and others,” said Sharma-Menon.

She contended that on the Mumbai-Nagpur super expressway project, many contracts and benefits were passed onto Mopalwar’s cronies and even to his relatives, among other wrongdoings.(UNI)