"Maharashtra needs leadership at this very crucial time, and all it got is a broker who is unashamedly pushing the petty electoral agenda of the BJP by mortgaging the valour of our brave Armed forces for a few votes," the AICC said.
In a scathing attack on the Chief Minister, the party said Fadnavis has been "pushed into a corner".
In a commentary posted on its website, Congress dubbed as "strange" statement of Fadnavis that if talks can be held with the Hurriyat and Naxals, what is wrong in talking with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
It also alleged that the controversy was a part of the "diversionary tactics" of the Chief Minister who has been unable to provide jobs or tackle rural distress, which forced a large number of farmers to commit suicide this year.
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"For a party, the BJP, whose own Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, wines and dines with his Pakistani counterparts and invites them to probe their own misdeeds, many have questioned the motives" behind the Chief Minister's move, it said.
The movie had been embroiled in a controversy over the past few weeks after the MNS opposed the screening of movies featuring Pakistani actors after the Uri terror attack, putting a question mark on the fate of movie, slated for Diwali release on October 28.
The MNS demand that film director Karan Johar donate Rs 5 crore to the Army Welfare Fund to resolve the controversy has led to attacks on the Chief Minister, who has denied that he was party to the proposal.
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