It’s about time we exposed Asia’s most corrupt civic body and ensured that those responsible for BMC’s mis-governance are brought to account, he said in a tweet
Eknath Gaikwad
MUMBAI: Former Mumbai Congress president Eknath Gaikwad passed away on Wednesday due to Covid. For more than a week, he was undergoing treatment at a private hospital. Eighty-one-year-old Gaikwad was the father of school education minister Varsha Gaikwad.
Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, NCP president Sharad Pawar, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, state Congress president Nana Patole, public works minister Ashok Chavan and revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat have condoled his death. “As a member of the state legislative assembly and later as a member of the Lok Sabha, Gaikwad constantly endeavoured for the development of Mumbai. In his demise, the city has lost a leader of the masses,” Koshyari said in his condolence message.
BJP Alleges Political Vendetta after Maha Govt Reduces Security Cover of Ex-CM Devendra Fadnavis
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The Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government s move to downgrade the security cover of former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his family, ex-UP governor Ram Naik and MNS president Raj Thackeray, and to withdraw the security cover of state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, has evoked the allegations of political vendetta . As per a government notification issued on January 8, the security covers of BJP leader and former CM Narayan Rane, Chandrakant Patil and another senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar have been withdrawn. Rane had Y-plus security.