Asthe beleaguered Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Maharashtra reels underthe 'letter-bomb' posted by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param BirSingh, it has emerged that the high profile IPS officer has strong 'familyties' with leaders close to Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
Littleknown to many, the ace ex-Mumbai top cop's son Rohan P. Singh is married withRupali S. Meghe, the grand-daughter of a respected senior BJP politician fromNagpur, Dattatraya R. Meghe.
Rupaliis the daughter of Sagar Meghe, also an ex-MLC of BJP plus an academician andbusinessman-turned-wannabe politician whose career failed to ignite after helost the Lok Sabha elections from Wardha in 2014 as a Congress candidate.
Currently,Sagar Meghe is understood to have a setup in Dubai handling the overseasaffairs of the reputed chain of educational institutions founded by hisillustrious father - a 3-time Lok Sabha and one-time Rajya Sabha MP -Dattatraya R. Meghe, an ex-Minister in Maharashtra Cabinet, now 85.
Afterspending four decades and flourishing with the NCP and Congress, in 2014, theMeghes migrated to the BJP and one of Sagar's siblings Sameer is now a BJPlegislator from Hingna assembly seat.
Besides,Param Bir Singh also has another long-standing BJP buddy-link which, policeofficials claim, he loved to speak about in his long police career - he is saidto be a college-friend of the pilot-turned-politico and former union minister,the BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
ThoughRudy hails from Bihar, he had studied at the DAV College in Chandigarh, whereParam Bir Singh has his family roots, and the duo enjoys a great friendshipgoing to the good ol' days.
ParamBir Singh also has a very cordial connect with the legendary Satya Pal Singh, aformer Commissioner of Police of Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur - who was dreaded bythe infamous Mumbai mafia and ensured their activities were virtually paralysedin the 1980-1990s with his band of gun-toting 'encounter specialists'.
Incidentally,a former union MoS, Satya Pal Singh once headed a Gujarat High Court appointedSIT to probe the fake encounter of a teenage girl Ishrat Jahan Raza, 19, ofMumbra, (Thane) and three of her friends in June 2004 by the Ahmedabad Policeshooters claiming they were terrorists out to assassinate the then ChiefMinister Narendra Modi, now the Prime Minister of India.
Lastyear, at the height of the TRP scam probe involving several televisionchannels, Param Bir Singh's spouse Savita shot into the limelight for being acorporate czarina in her own right.
Presently,as the MVA leaders allege, Param Bir Singh is the newest-found darling of thestate BJP which is virtually working against a 'next-month deadline' to oustthe Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress government led by ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackeray.
Politicalsources speculate that with a race against time, the BJP hopes that'letter-bomb shell' could probably dislodge the MVA as Leader of OppositionDevendra Fadnavis gets mid-summer dreams about a third swearing-in ceremony.