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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis connected Monday (October 27, 2025) said that friends are not crutches.
He was responding to a reporter’s question connected Union Minister Amit Shah’s connection astatine a enactment event successful Mumbai, that the Bharatiya Janata Party successful the State does not tally connected crutches but connected its ain strength.
“Those who question this remark bash not recognize the meaning of `crutches’. Friends are not crutches,” said Mr. Fadnavis who leads a three-party confederation authorities with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
The Chief Minister, meanwhile, besides slammed the Opposition for “politicising” the termination of a pistillate doc astatine Phaltan successful Satara district.
“Those who politicise a delicate contented are unfortunate people. They privation to enactment successful the limelight. I person already said, nary 1 volition beryllium spared successful the case,” helium said.
He besides criticised the Opposition for raising doubts implicit the electoral rolls. “I person already said that it is screen firing up of an impending decision (in coming elections). We excessively person spoken retired against duplicate names successful elector lists. The Opposition failed to springiness impervious of treble voting,” Mr. Fadnavis said.
Opposition parties ne'er objected to electoral rolls earlier, helium added.
On a contention implicit the merchantability of a premier portion of onshore belonging to a Jain spot successful Pune, Mr. Fadnavis said the contented was betwixt the backstage builder and the Jain community, and the authorities has taken a determination arsenic per the community’s wishes.
“Pune MP and Union Minister Murlidhar Mohol’s sanction has been unnecessarily dragged into the lawsuit with an oculus connected section elections,” helium said.
The spot successful the upmarket Model Colony area, measuring astir 3.5 acres, houses a Jain boarding facility. After it was acquired by Pune-based Gokhale Constructions from the trust, students, alumni, spiritual leaders and assemblage members objected to the deal.
