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Narayan Rane resumes ‘Yatra’ with a bang, slams Shiv Sena for his arrest

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Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane on Friday resumed his ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ — abruptly suspended after his arrest, magisterial custody followed by bail on Tuesday — and launched a vigorous attack on the Shiv Sena, which retaliated in equal measure.

Simultaneously, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis were closeted in a private meeting in Mumbai, sparking off political speculation of a possible truce between the now-warring ex-allies.

Continuing to breathe fire aggressively despite a soar throat, Rane said that the Disha Salian case has not yet ended and threatened to “expose” the Sena ‘bit-by-bit’ over the coming days.

“What did they achieve by arresting a Union Minister like this,” Rane asked in an apparently anguished voice, adding that after his health improves, he would again hammer the Shiv Sena.

Hitting back, Shiv Sena Lok Sabha group Leader Vinayak Raut — who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding Rane’s dismissal from the Union Cabinet — said even his party “would unmask Rane” on various issues including the suspicious death of his distant relative Ankush Rane in April 2009.

The party’s newspapers, ‘Saamana’ and ‘Dopahar Ka Saamana’ had on Thursday demanded to know “who was responsible for the disappearances of persons like Shridhar Naik, Ramesh Govikar, Satyavijay Bhuse and Ankush Rane (Narayan Rane’s distant cousin)” and demanded a fresh probe into these cases by the Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

“Even Fadnavis has raised many issues in the past… All we have to do is to order a re-investigation into these cases,” warned Raut, accusing the BJP of foisting Rane only to “corner the Shiv Sena by hurling false allegations”.

Undeterred, Rane attacked the ruling MVA government, saying it has done nothing for the people of the state in the past two years, no aid has yet reached the flood-hit people of Konkan and western Maharashtra, while the farmers and ordinary folks continue to suffer.

The central minister assured that he would take up the cause of the (coastal) Konkan people, especially the mango, cashew and other cultivators who lost heavily due to the recent floods, with the Centre and try to get maximum help for them.

Rane’s ‘Yatra’ had come to a grinding halt on Tuesday after his sudden arrest midway, from his camp in Sangamner, in connection with the ‘slap slur’ against the CM Thackeray, which sparked off huge protests all over the state and counter-protests by the BJP.

He was taken to Raigad and produced before the Mahad Court Judicial Magistrate First Class S.S. Patil, who upheld his arrest as “justified”, sent him to Magisterial Custody for 10 days till September 4, and later granted him conditional bail the same night.

This has made him the first Union Minister to be arrested in the past 20 years, and only the third in the country so far, after the Chennai Police in 2001 nabbed DMK’s Murasoli Maran and T.R. Baalu, both former Union Ministers in the government of the late Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

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Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sudhakar Pathare, who was posted in the Port Zone, passed away in a road accident on Saturday.

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Pathare had visited Hyderabad for training. He was on his way to visit a temple with a relative when the accident occurred. Both Pathare and his relative lost their lives in the crash.

Mumbai Police have been informed about the incident.

More details are awaited.

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Order to demolish the tomb of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Baba in Mira Bhayander

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Mumbai: The state government has issued an order to demolish the four hundred year old dargah of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Peer Rahmatullah Alaih located in Mira Bhayander. Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation has sent a letter to the collector declaring this dargah illegal and ordered action against it. As the dargah is located on forest land, communalists had started demanding the demolition of the dargah. In the House, Darranjan Daukhre had also demanded action against the dargah, after which now the state government has ordered to run a bulldozer on the dargah. An order has also been issued to remove and demolish the dargah by May.

Dargah trustee Amjad Sheikh said that this dargah is ancient and this order is illegal in itself. In this case, communal forces had launched a campaign against the dargah, after which this order was issued.

There is a dargah on the beach and citing the threat of terrorist and illegal activities and the presence of terrorists here, there was a demand to demolish the dargah. The dargah is close to the sea and in such a situation, the threat of a terrorist attack on Mumbai from the sea has been expressed, while the dargah administration has clearly denied this and said that communal organizations are running their agenda against the dargah and there is no such threat. Muslims have opposed this decision of the government and Muslims have also expressed their displeasure and anger over it.

The trustee says that this dargah is ancient and earlier the collector and the municipal corporation had given a notice, after which the illegal shed and other premises were demolished here and the dargah administration has taken this action at its own level. Now an order has been issued to demolish the dargah itself.

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Haji Ali Dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid due to rising sea level

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Mumbai: Due to rising sea level at Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid. On March 31, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims from 12 noon to 3 pm. During this time, entry of pilgrims to the dargah will be restricted. The dargah will be closed on Tuesday, April 1 from 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm and on Wednesday, April 2 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

Therefore, we have appealed to the pilgrims not to gather at the dargah during these hours. This information has been released by Tahir, administrative officer of Haji Ali Dargah. Pilgrims visit Haji Ali Dargah on Eid-Basi and Tiwasi, but due to the rising water level of the sea, water gets accumulated on the way to the Dargah and entry to the Dargah is prohibited and the gate of the Dargah remains closed during these days, due to which there is a lot of crowd there. Therefore, pilgrims have been requested to come to the Dargah only at the scheduled time.

The police also remains vigilant at the Dargah during the rising sea level, as there is a crowd of pilgrims here during Eid and festivals. The Haji Ali Dargah administration has said that on the occasion of Eid, lakhs of pilgrims visit the Dargah of Haji Ali (RahmatullahAlaih). These pilgrims include pilgrims from the country and abroad, so the Dargah administration has also claimed special security arrangements on Eid. Spiritual scenes are also seen at Haji Ali Dargah during Eid prayers.

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