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XMumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said that friends are not crutches.

He was responding to a reporter's question on Union minister Amit Shah's statement at a party event here that the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state does not run on crutches but on its own strength.

"Those who question this remark do not understand the meaning of `crutches'. Friends are not crutches," said Fadnavis who leads a three-party alliance government with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.

The chief minister, meanwhile, also slammed the Opposition for "politicising" the suicide of a woman doctor at Phaltan in Satara district.

"Those who politicise a sensitive issue are unfortunate people. They want to stay in the limelight. I have already said, no one

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