NCP leader Ajit Pawar has got a big relief in the irrigation scam. Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a clean chit to Ajit Pawar in the Alleged irrigation scam. The ACB has filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on November 27. This affidavit states that the then VIDC chairman Ajit Pawar cannot be held responsible for the acts of the executing agencies. This is because they have no such legal obligation.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and BJP have been targeting Ajit Pawar over the scam. Fadnavis took the first action after becoming the Chief Minister in 2014. He ordered an inquiry into the alleged role of Ajit Pawar in the irrigation scam. Reports said that during the previous Congress-NCP government, when Ajit Pawar was the Deputy Chief Minister, there was a case of misappropriation of about 70 thousand crores.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau questioned former Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar in November 2018 in this famous scam in Maharashtra. According to reports, the Maharashtra ACB had then told the High Court that Pawar and other government officials had defaulted in the alleged corruption of crores of rupees. It may be known that Ajit Pawar had the responsibility of irrigation department in the Congress-NCP coalition government from 1999 to 2014.