tyle="text-align:justify">NCP chief Sharad Pawar today accused BJP of "misusing power" to investigate the corruption charges against senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal. Pawar further said, “any effect on the NCP's strength",he said this regarding Bhujbal’s arrest.

Pawar said, "If he (Bhujbal) is indeed guilty of the charges against him, then he will duly have to suffer punishment...but if he is proven innocent, they (BJP) will have to pay for pressurising the enforcement agencies,"

Bhujbal, a former deputy Chief minister of Maharashtra, was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in link with multi-crore graft cases stuck beside him in March this year.

Senior NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare are under the Anti-Corruption Bureau's (ACB) scanner for their alleged connection in the irrigation scam.