Patil has NCP’s full support: Pichad

He clarified that the transfer of Mumbai Police Commissioner was not due to political pressure but a routine transfer. “No one should take credit for the transfer as it was an administrative matter,” Pichad said.

Meanwhile,Patil avoided media that was waiting to seek his opinion on transfer of Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik and increasing pressure to resign after the violence in Mumbai during a protest rally.

“Opposition parties are targeting NCP as the party’s strength has been rising in the state,” he told party workers. There is a conspiracy to target NCP leaders and few are supporting agitators indirectly to hit out at NCP ministers,Patil said.

The decisions of the state government are taken collectively by NCP and Congress,he said,adding that the alliance partner did not support the NCP in some places during civic polls.

The MNS,along with the Shiv Sena and BJP,has been demanding Patil’s resignation for the incident in which the police was attacked by miscreants during a protest rally in Azad Maidan.