Satara, Sep 29 (Reporter) Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday took a swipe at the opposition parties over their hypocritical stance on encounter of Akshay Shinde, an accused in Badlapur school sexual assault case. Addressing a foundation laying function of late Balasaheb Desai agriculture complex, drinking water scheme and unveiling of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue at Patan in the district this evening, he accused the opposition of adopting a contradictory stand on Akshay Shinde's encounter, saying that at first they demanded to hang accused but after police encounter, they are asking why did the police encounter him. "This stand of opposition is hypocritical, and people will 'encounter' opposition parties for their double standards in upcoming state assembly election," he remarked. Shinde claimed that after he became the Chief Minister, he has succeeded in taking the state to number one rank in just six months. He assured that another life-sized statue of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapatii Shivaji will be installed at Rajkot fort in Malvan of the Sindhudurg district before the 'Shiv Jayanti' (Shivaji's birth anniversary) next year, in place of collapsed one...////...