Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday reiterated his attack on the Centre, saying that the people of Maharashtra are aware of the "pressure politics" by the BJP-led government against the state, adding the central agencies are being misused for the same.
He said, "There will always be pressure politics on Maharashtra and West Bengal. We will continue to struggle. If somebody wants to do pressure politics, we welcome them... But we want to do transparent politics concerning the people of this country. But they are trying to pressure us using the Central agencies. There was a time when the East India Company used to adopt such tactics, buying people, crushing them and suppressing them. "
The Shiv Sena leader further drew a parallel between the Centre and East India Company. Raut also defended a cartoon that he shared on his Twitter page in which the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI have been portrayed as dogs. "The cartoon that I have shared expresses what the people of the country feel. This is how people think. These well-respected agencies which were once lauded, are now being misused used against the opposition parties."
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