The BJP, however, retorted saying the Sena should stop interfering in its internal affairs and that the party leadership was capable of taking a call on the issue.
"Eknath Khadse is a senior leader of the BJP and at a time when allegations are being leveled against him, he is the only one answering everybody. The Chief Minister is not speaking on the issue at all," Sena MP Sanjay Raut told reporters here.
Raut said if Khadse has not done anything wrong, the CM should come forward and say so.
"The BJP should maintain moral standards. We will take a stand on the issue once the CM speaks on the demand for Khadse's resignation," he said.
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BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari, however, said that party president Raosaheb Danve has already backed Khadse over the issue.
Khadse has found himself embroiled in a series of controversies over allegations of impropriety in purchase of a Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation land in Pune and alleged calls from fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's residence to his mobile.
It is also alleged that when he was a minister in Shiv Sena-BJP government in late 1990s, he had conceived the Tapi Irrigation Development Corporation and got awarded contracts to his relatives and supporters.
Meanwhile, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan demanded that Khadse be immediately sacked and a case registered against him.
Former AAP leader Anjali Damania has launched a hunger strike demanding an inquiry into the allegations of corruption against Khadse and has sought his ouster from the state cabinet.