Mumbai sources have stated that Maharashtra Water Conservation Minister Ram Shinde has landed himself in a controversy after a video clip in which he is purportedly seen urinating by roadside has surfaced on social media today. Sources have stated that the incident occurred on a stretch on the Solapur-Barshi road when the minister was travelling in his car.
Meanwhile when contacted, Shinde told PTI that he urinated in the open as he was feeling ill after spending nearly a month touring the state for the government's flagship Jalyukta Shivar scheme. "I have been travelling continuously from the last one month taking review of the Jalyukta Shivar scheme".
However, the opposition
NCP said the minister not finding a toilet on a highway shows that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's Swacch Bharat Abhiyan has failed. Currently it is proved
that the government has been looting people in the name of Swacch Bharat cess
on petrol and diesel, said by NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik.
