Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should conduct a thorough probe and make public the facts related to the controversial Pune land deal allegedly linked to Parth Pawar, son of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

“The chief minister has said publicly that the matter is serious. So he should conduct a probe and put the facts before society,” Sharad Pawar told reporters in Akola. The controversy involves the alleged illegal sale of 40 acres of government land in Pune’s Mundhwa area, reportedly worth around Rs 1,800 crore, which Opposition leaders claim was sold to a company linked to Parth Pawar for just Rs 300 crore, with a stamp duty waiver.