The Congress-NCP alliance, which has been ruling Maharashtra for the past 15 years, has indulged in a number of corrupt deals amounting to about ₹12 lakh crore, said Eknath Khadse, Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, on Tuesday.

There is enough evidence about their complicity and soon it would be put forth to the people, he added. Addressing the media, the BJP leader said the huge number was based on the actual funds siphoned from the State Government and damage done to the State’s treasury. Huge tracts of State Government lands in and around Pune have been sold to real estate companies at throwaway prices, he alleged.

Citing examples of such suspicious land deals, Khadse said about 102 acres of land near Symbiosis Institute was given to a construction company for a mere Rs ₹100 crore.

The Bombay High Court has now ordered that the land be returned to the State Government and FIR be filed against concerned officers, he said.

“In another case 347 acres of land near Yerwada Jail was sold based on bogus land records. Huge constructions have already come up on the land and direct beneficiaries of these deals are Supriya Sule (daughter of Sharad Pawar) among others. This deal is alone worth ₹3,000 crore. If you add up all these murky deals it may even surpass ₹12 lakh crore number,” Khadse said.

Khadse also said that despite the imminent announcement of elections in Maharashtra, the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena and other smaller parties are yet to arrive at a seat sharing arrangement. Smaller parties such as Republic Party of India (A) and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana have not finalised their seat sharing arrangement. “Once their seats are finalised then BJP and Shiv Sena will come up with its own arrangement,” he said.