Mumbai: A day after putting out the filmy dialogue ‘Picture abhi baki hai mere dost,’ NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik on Friday said the film will be over only after NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede loses his job which he secured on the basis of a “forged” caste certificate.

“I will expose him on a daily basis. I want to reiterate that the main organizer of the cruise rave party, Kashiff Khan, was let off as he is a personal friend of Wankhede’s. I have massive evidence against Wankhede and politicians involved in illegal activities. A section of high-profile BJP leaders has been frequently visiting NCB’s office ever since Wankhede took over the reins of the western zone. I will expose them during the winter session of the state legislature. Once I speak, most of them will leave their political activities,” Malik claimed.

Malik alleged that Wankhede, with the help of the BJP, was maligning the image of the MVA government. “BJP is making all-out efforts to shift the Bollywood industry to Uttar Pradesh. It is all a conspiracy designed by the BJP.”

On Wankhede’s wife Kranti writing to CM Uddhav Thackeray saying he should help her as she is a ‘Marathi manoos,’ Malik said he too is Marathi as his family has been staying in Maharashtra for more than seven decades. “I was born in 1959, and since then have been a permanent resident of Mumbai. Am I not Marathi?” Malik said at a media conference.

Malik said he put out the picture of Wankhede’s first wife with her prior consent. “His first wife herself sent the pictures. So far as Kranti is concerned, I have never uttered a word against her. In my opinion, she should not use the Marathi card. Kranti Redkar should not forget that her husband was part of a conspiracy to defame Maharashtra and Mumbai,” Malik said.

Ever since Aryan Khan was arrested, Malik has launched a campaign against the NCB, saying all raids conducted by the central agency are fake. With a section of BJP leaders taking him on over his family business, Malik said his father was a scrap dealer and he too was involved in the family business. “I am proud of my business. My father was a scrap dealer, and I too was assisting him. It’s our family business,” he said.

Malik said the main task of a scrap dealer is to collect scrap, melt it and use it effectively for commercial purposes. “Now, I have decided to collect (political) scrap from all over Mumbai, and each and every nut and bolt will be melted and used suitably,” Malik said.

Wankhede has denied charges levelled by Malik and has said the minister has been lying.

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The drugs-on-cruise controversy is expected to overshadow proceedings in the forthcoming winter session of the state legislature, with senior minister Nawab Malik assuring to expose the opposition for its alleged involvement in the case, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ready with its gloves off, to give a fitting response.

The session, to be held in Nagpur, is five weeks away. By the time the sitting opens on December 7, the drug case and allegation against NCB officer, Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede will be in advanced stage. The celebrity accused were bailed out on Friday, but the case refuses to die down, with other matters surfacing every day. The state government has said.

Wankhede is being probed by his agency’s vigilance department and by the state police that have filed a first information report in the extortion charges one of the panch witnesses has made. The officer is also accused of faking his caste to get employment in the reserved quota for the scheduled castes.

Malik promised to keep his tirade against Wankhede on. “The BJP will attack me in the session. They will take my name. Once I reveal the big names, the BJP leaders will not be able to show their faces in public,” said Malik on Friday, adding that Wankhede was BJP’s parrot, and a picture of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya with the Wankhede family, substantiated his claim of the party handling the officer. Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis said what Malik has been saying is not important to him or his party. “He speaks every day, anytime. He doesn’t have any work. He is the NCP’s parrot who speaks daily.”

Sources say that the legislature was likely to witness unprecedented arguments and exchange of serious allegations. These would invite court proceedings if made outside the legislature that provides members immunity for the acts committed and words said inside. The proceedings, unless expunged by the presiding officer, are allowed to be reported and discussed outside the house.