Mumbai: After the death of the late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, there was an atmosphere of mourning across the state. However, on the day of Ajit Pawar’s death, a surprising claim has been made that there was a flood of signatures in a department of the ministry and now there has been an uproar over this. It is being told that 75 educational institutions have been given minority status in a hurry by the state’s minority department, while the government is mourning the untimely death of the state’s Deputy Chief Minister and certificates in this regard have been given within a few hours of Ajit Pawar’s accident. Sharad Chandra Pawar’s party MLA Rohit Pawar has expressed his anger. Expressing his displeasure after this came to light, Rohit Pawar said that the files that were pending during Ajit Pawar’s life were signed in a hurry in the ministry on the day of Ajit Pawar’s death. “Everything has gone to waste, is there any value in a human being? Is there not even a little passion and sensitivity left?” Rohit Pawar expressed his feelings through an earlier post while asking this question.

What is the claim actually?

According to the report, the process of issuing minority status certificates to these schools was stopped since August 2025. But it is alleged that the ministry, ignoring this suspension, distributed minority certificates to these schools with the death of Ajit Pawar. Interestingly, the first certificate was issued on the same day that Ajit Pawar died,

Congress aggressive, demands action from the commission chairman
Youth Congress general secretary Akshay Jain has alleged that there has been large-scale financial embezzlement in the matter of granting minority status to schools and has demanded action. On the other hand, the chairman of the State Minority Commission, Pyare Khan, has also taken an aggressive stand. Pyare Khan demanded that such a process of granting minority status to these educational institutions is shocking and against the concerned authorities. Action should be taken through CID.

Mumbai: The court had allowed the celebration of Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary in Mumbai. Tipu Sultan gave gifts to the Ranganath Swamy temple and protected the temples. Tipu Sultan protected this country from the British. He was a freedom fighter and the first missile man. If a picture of Tipu Sultan is installed in Malegaon, why object to it? This kind of comment was made by MLA Abu Asim Azmi after the uproar and uproar over Tipu Sultan. He said that the Constitution of India has the picture of Tipu Sultan and Rani Lakshmi Bai. Is this wrong? Their names are still alive in history. Lach sectarians are only doing politics of hatred. The BJP corporator of Bandra had developed Tipu Sultan Chowk. At that time, Amit Sattam was also in the corporation, but now the BJP is doing politics on Tipu Sultan. This hatred should end.

Mumbai: Replicas of musical instruments made of various colorful flowers… peacocks, butterflies, elephants, horses and sanais adorned with flowers, choghdhe, trumpets… abundance of flowers… amazing petunias, broccoli, salvia plants… fragrant flowers with marigolds, roses, mogra etc… plants… vines, vegetables… and for all this, decorated with fertilizers, pots etc., the Andheri Flower Festival was inaugurated today by actor Padma Shri Shri Akshay Kumar. On this occasion, Mumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, MLA Amit Satam, MLA Haroon Khan, Corporator Sudha Singh, Corporator Deepak Kotekar, Corporator M Rohan Rathod, Corporator Anish Makwani, Corporator Sunita Mehta, Corporator Vitthal Bhanderi, Corporator Rupesh Savarkar, Corporator Savarkar, Corporator Bhagya Shri Kapse, Assistant Commissioner of West Zone Chakrapani Ale, Municipal Corporation Parks Superintendent Jitendra Pardeshi and various dignitaries were present. Recently, the Mumbai Flower Festival was organized in South Mumbai by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation. About 1.5 lakh Mumbaikars attended and enjoyed the exhibition. After this exhibition, the Flower Festival is now being organized in Andheri too. This two-day festival is being organized at the Pushpa Narsi Adyar of the Municipal Corporation located on the road. The flower festival is open to all citizens on Saturday, February 14 and Sunday, February 15, 2026 from 8 am to 9 pm. The Andheri Flower Festival is decorated with colorful flowers. There are also halls for trees, pots, fertilizers, garden tools, various plants and tree nurseries, flower medicines, pesticides, sprayers, fertilizers, etc. Along with this, various bonsai varieties, ornamental plants, flowers, vegetables, medicinal plants are also put up for display.

Actor Akshay Kumar said, Mumbai is a very busy city. The Municipal Corporation has organized a beautiful flower festival. This flower festival should be held twice a year. One thing is felt in the flower festival, that is, to come here and ‘stop’. ‘Stopping’ is very important in life. Come and be calm in life. Come here, sit, look… These flowers want to tell you something, that they bring ‘peace’ in your life. Feed yourself. Don’t compete with anyone, just let yourself bloom and when everyone blooms, then only a ‘garden’ is formed. Everyone has many works. I also work a lot. But I completely relax myself after 6 pm. Because the most important thing is health. We should take great care of our health and the flower festival makes you aware of this. Bhushan Gagrani, Commissioner of Mumbai Municipal Corporation, said, the flower festival is an important step taken to protect the environment of Mumbai. We want to take this campaign and this heritage to a higher level, so that every Mumbaikar is involved in it. This treasure of nature should not belong to the municipal corporation or any one person, it is the treasure of every Mumbaikar. We all want to protect it.

MLA Mr. Amit Sattam said that we all should keep Mumbai city clean and beautiful at all times. For this, the actor presented the idea of ​​a cleanliness competition. In which Andheri should compete with Parla, Parla with Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz with Bandra, Bandra with Mahim, Mahim with Dadar and Dadar with Malabar Hill, he suggested organizing a cleanliness competition. We will definitely think about this in the coming time. Mumbai is currently at number nine in Swachh Bharat. MLA Sattam also said that we will try to bring Mumbai to number one soon.

Local citizens, students of municipal schools, youth, senior citizens etc. are visiting the first flower fair in Andheri.