Thane/Mumbai, Oct 11 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Saturday accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of encouraging misrule by protecting controversial ministers and likened his governance to the erstwhile Mughal era.

The remarks drew sharp criticism from the BJP, which accused Sapkal of carrying forward the ideas of General Dyer, a British general remembered for his role in the massacre of Amritsar in 1919. The saffron party also termed Sapkal as "mentally enslaved" to Italy.

Sapkal's criticism comes after Fadnavis on Friday said no arms licence had been issued to Sachin Ghaywal, brother of gangster Nilesh Ghaywal, who is believed to have fled the country amid a probe by Pune police into a firing incident linked to road rage.

The alleged issuance of an arm

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