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سپتامبر 9, 2022

As 2024 polls draw closer, Sharad Pawar becomes rallying point for anti-BJP forces in Maharashtra, Centre

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday to evolve a consensus among non-BJP parties to forge a political front keeping the 2024 elections in sight. Though the efforts are still in the preliminary stage, the message that came across is that Pawar is playing the role of a catalyst to bring individuals across parties and states to the talking table.
Last week, Sharad Pawar had announced in Maharashtra that he would work to unite non-BJP parties, but he also made it very clear that he would not take any responsibility due to his age. Pawar’s refrain was that the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, failed to usher in the promised “achhe din” in the country. Most of the promises made in 2014 have remained on paper, he lamented.

At 81 years, Pawar is still among the most proactive leaders who extensively tour Maharashtra. However, the downfall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government after two and a half years has proved to be a setback for the NCP which was a crucial party in the coalition.
After the 2019 state Assembly elections that led to the Shiv Sena breaking ties with the BJP, Pawar had taken the initiative to unite the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena to form the tripartite MVA with the objective of keeping the BJP out of power in Maharashtra.
Yet, the experiment in the state was short-lived as the BJP succeeded in exploiting the unrest within the Shiv Sena, causing a vertical split in the party both in the state Legislative Assembly as well as the Parliament. Of the total 55 Shiv Sena MLAs, 40 walked out of the parent party under the leadership of Eknath Shinde whom the BJP rewarded with the most-coveted Chief Minister post.
Notwithstanding the setback, seasoned politician Pawar is now focused on building a front against the BJP ahead of the 2024 polls. In Maharashtra, during the Monsoon Session in August, Opposition leader Ajit Pawar and former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had announced that the Congress, NCP and the Sena will put up a united front in the 2024 Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. They also intend to fight the BMC polls under the MVA banner.
What applies to Maharashtra is also being replicated at the national level. Pawar seems to have become the rallying point, but then this is not the first time that the idea of an anti-BJP front has been floated.
Sharad Pawar had on umpteen occasions in the past taken the lead to form a third front which was then perceived as a pressure group to fight both the Congress and the BJP. At times, the consolidation of such a group was seen as a method to bring regional parties to the centre stage of national politics.
A senior NCP state leader said, “Pawar has always worked to unite like-minded secular parties. The political agenda is to fight communal forces.” Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Pawar will once again continue the effort to get like-minded parties to put up a united front against the BJP.
Sources in the NCP, however, are cautious with one leader saying, ” At this stage, leaders are just meeting. Nothing concrete has emerged.”
Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar, meanwhile, is likely to meet leaders across parties, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D Raja, Indian National Lok Dal’s Om Prakash Chautala and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, among others.
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سپتامبر 6, 2022

Seat belts must be made compulsory for occupants of car’s rear seat, say experts

Orthopedicians have made a strong case for mandatory use of seat belts even among the rear seat occupants in a car. Sudden braking often leads to deceleration injuries that can be fatal. At Pune’s Sancheti Hospital, nearly 2,500 persons who have had severe injuries in road accidents are operated upon annually while the trauma care centre of Lokmanya Hospital at Nigdi treats not less than 1,000 road accident victims every year.
Even as the tragic death of Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons, has put the focus on the importance of wearing seat belts, at the Indian Orthopaedic Association, the theme this year is ‘Each One, Save One’. It puts the spotlight on deaths occurring due to trauma and accidents in India.

Dr Chetan Pradhan, president, Pune Orthopaedic Society, who is also the chief of trauma care at Sancheti Hospital, said that daily they were getting five new patients who had sustained injuries in road accidents. “At district level associations too we are following the same theme of saving trauma victims and stepping up awareness by training police, school and college students, firemen and others on road safety practices,” Dr Pradhan said.
Wearing a helmet on a two-wheeler and seat belt in a four wheeler is an absolute must, Dr Pradhan said.
Globally, nearly 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. In India, according to the recent data from National Crime Records Bureau, road crashes claimed 1.55 lakh lives in 2021. The United Nations General Assembly has set an ambitious target of halving the global number of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030 and as per the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, wearing seat belts reduces one’s risk of suffering injuries or death by about half.
Dr Abhijit Wahegaonkar, former secretary, Pune Orthopaedic Society, told The Indian Express that whiplash injuries often occur due to these accidents where the head is forcefully and quickly thrown backward and then forward. Wearing seat belts in a car is an absolute must, he said.

“Motor vehicles have greater safety features with airbags, lane departure prevention systems. But what people forget is that the first line of defence is a seat belt. The general notion is that with all these advanced systems, one is safe and most times people forget to wear the seat belt,” said Dr Mayur Kardile, consultant spine surgeon at Jehangir Hospital.
Dr Shrikrishna Joshi, vice-president, Lokmanya Group of Hospitals, is appalled that despite awareness about road accidents on highways and expressways, there is a distinct aversion to wearing a seat belt. “We treat at least 1,000 such road accident victims from Pune-Mumbai expressway, old national (NH-4) highway and even along the Nashik highway every year at the trauma care centre at Nigdi. The severity of the injury often depends upon the nature of the accident whether it was head to head collision, a hit from the rear or oblique side. We almost always get cases of polytrauma – which apart from a head injury there is impact on the chest ribs and femur fractures,” Dr Joshi said.
Seat belts are designed to protect critical and vulnerable areas and there can be traumatic injuries in a serious road accident that can be fatal, Dr Neeraj Adkar, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at Ruby Hall Clinic told The Indian Express.
Similarly, spinal cord injuries can have severe consequences and impair the quality of life, he said and urged that wearing seat belts should be made compulsory.
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آگوست 20, 2022

BJP, Shinde-led Sena will fight against Uddhav faction in BMC polls: Devendra Fadnavis

The BJP has decided to take the battle against the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray to the people’s court to allow them to determine the destiny of Mumbai in the BMC elections, deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said Saturday.
While exuding confidence of a grand victory in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls, Fadnavis said, “BJP and the Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde will fight the BMC elections together as alliance partners.” Fadnavis was addressing BJP workers at a function organised by the party to felicitate newly-appointed Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar.
Fadnavis added, “Late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray’s dreams for Mumbai and Mumbaikars will be fulfilled by us. Those who used his name to come to power never bothered because their sole concern was vested interests. We will take our battle against Thackeray’s Sena to the Mumbaikars’ court. It is for them to deliver the final verdict. It will be the people’s decision to decide the destiny of Mumbai.”
Outlining a roadmap for the economic capital of the country, Fadnavis said, “In the last 2.5 years of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, the Dharavi redevelopment project had come to a standstill. I assure that the Eknath Shinde-led government will address all hurdles in this project within three months to set in process the Dharavi redevelopment project which promises houses to its residents.”
The Rs 25,000-crore project has skipped many deadlines in the past. “Similarly, there are several such colonies near the airport and along the western suburbs which have come up on Central government’s land. Occupants of those areas will also have to be provided houses,” Fadnavis said.
Claiming corruption in BMC led by the Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, Fadnavis said, “Mumbai and Mumbaikars’ welfare was never their concern. They used power to make money. Or else how does one explain their corruption even during the Covid-19 pandemic? They floated companies and assigned contracts to themselves for purchases, grossly violating all norms.”
He further said, “All the mega projects — Mumbai Trans Harbour, Coastal Road, Navi Mumbai Airport and the Metro Railway — were implemented during the BJP regime (2014-2019). The central leadership of BJP helped in giving quick clearances to fast track the projects which promises to transform the lives of its citizens.”
Evoking the name of late Bal Thackeray, Fadnavis said, “Mumbai makeover is our unwavering commitment. Our efforts to make the life of Mumbaikars better is our resolve and it will be done.”
On the BMC polls, Fadnavis said, “When the election draws near, they (Thackeray faction) will try to raise the pitch by bringing in an emotional angle. They will once again start a campaign and tell people how Mumbai will get divided from the rest of Maharashtra or say Marathi asmitha is in danger.”
He added, “I would like to make it clear. These issues have been used as handy tools against the BJP even in the past but to no avail. I can say with absolute certainty that there is nobody born yet who can dare break Mumbai from Maharashtra.”
On Shelar’s appointment, Fadnavis said, it was a conscious decision as he has been entrusted with the responsibility to pull a grand victory in the BMC polls. “Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj often chose his best soldier to lead a battle and in the similar fashion, our central leadership has reposed faith in Shelar’s ability,” Fadnavis said.
The former CM added, “Since Shelar is well versed with cricket, he knows how to play the 20:20 BMC match.”
First published on: 20-08-2022 at 05:42:59 pm

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ژوئن 21, 2022

Eknath Shinde ko gussa kyun aata hai: Sidelined by Thackerays in Sena, govt, No. 2 turns a rebel

At 11:17 pm on Monday, the Maharashtra urban development and public works minister and influential Shiv Sena leader, Eknath Shinde, put out a tweet expressing happiness over the election of two Sena nominees in the Legislative Council elections. A couple of hours later, Shinde along with around 20 Sena MLAs, went “incommunicado”, dealing a severe blow to the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance government as well as its lead player, the Sena, which might be heading for an imminent split now.
While Shinde has always sworn allegiance to the Sena and Thackerays, there have been murmurs in recent months that he was “unhappy” over the way the party was being run and the treatment being meted out to old Sainiks like him. Over the past two years, as the Sena underwent a generational change in its leadership which saw the sidelining of its many senior leaders and the emergence of a new guard led by Aditya Thackeray, the son of party president and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

While Shinde has been in charge of two key portfolios and was the next most important Sena minister after the Thackerays, there had been a buzz that he was not getting a free run in running his departments as all their decisions were purportedly vetted by the Thackerays and their inner coterie.
A top state official said Shinde was “upset” as he was marginalised in the urban development department. As its minister, he is the chairperson of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). However, the environment minister, Aaditya Thackeray, often attended the MMRDA meetings involving its commissioner, hence Shinde did not take much interest in its affairs.
The emergence of Aaditya, who is also the Yuva Sena president, and his bid to groom the party’s youth wing leaders like Varun Sardesai also upset Shinde. Once deemed to be the tallest leader in the party after the Thackerays, the rise of younger leaders in its ranks is said to have rankled Shinde.

Over the last two years, especially since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, Shinde’s access to Matoshree, the residence of the Thackerays, was also restricted, with an impression gaining ground that the latter were not seeking his counsel like they used to earlier.
Shinde, who has been a proponent of the Sena-BJP alliance, was said to be especially upset with Uddav’s decision to join hands with the NCP and the Congress to form the MVA government. He also felt that over the last two years the party’s allies, especially the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, were hurting the Sena’s prospects.

Some MVA government officials say that there were instances in the last one year that pointed to things not being smooth between Uddhav and Shinde, who is now believed to be holed up at a hotel in Surat in the BJP-ruled Gujarat along with about 20 party MLAs.

Sources say that matters like the security cover enjoyed by Shinde and his say in police transfers were some of the factors that reflected his diminishing influence over the Uddhav-led government.
An official said Shinde enjoys “Z” category security on paper while he was keen to get “Z plus” security cover being given to the likes of Uddhav and Pawar. “However, the State Intelligence Department (SID) that takes orders from the CM provided him ‘Z’ security, a level below ‘Z plus’. It was a subtle way of pointing out the power hierarchy to him,” a source said. It was believed that Shinde was miffed over it.
Another reason for Shinde’s resentment was that he had to struggle to have a say in police postings in Thane, his home turf. Recently, the transfers of five IPS officers in and around Thane had to be stayed after the NCP minister-headed home department issued the transfer list. “While eventually Shinde’s demands were accommodated and the transfers were put on hold, the question was, why were his recommendations not taken into consideration in the first place given that he had a direct line to the CM,” the source said, adding that “While these are small issues, it did show that Shinde did not have an easy run and had to struggle within his own party.”
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Sources also said that over the last one year, Uddhav hardly met any party leaders, mainly due to his health condition. “Earlier when the CM visited Mantralaya, leaders would come to meet him as everyone is allowed inside. Now with him functioning mainly from Varsha, the CM bungalow, where access is limited, not many could meet him,” the source said. “Even during Covid, citing health reasons, some bureaucrats had ensured that the CM did not meet many other leaders from the party, thereby increasing his dependancy on these bureaucrats.”
Amid simmering discontent in a Sena section against the party’s functioning for some time, Shinde was said to be in waiting and gauging public sentiments, worried that a declaration of no-confidence in the Thackerays could lead to a backlash from their party loyalists in the state.
The back-to-back setbacks suffered by the MVA in the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council elections in the state in just ten days proved to be the final straw that led to Shinde mounting a bid for engineering a split in the party.
(With inputs from Yogesh Naik)

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ژوئن 7, 2022

7,429 active Covid cases in Mumbai: Mask up, health minister tells residents

As the active Covid-19 count in Maharashtra stood at 7,429 on Monday, state health minister advised the citizens to wear masks to avoid any possible contraction of infection. A day after recording 1,494 cases on Sunday, the daily caseload dropped to 1,036 on Monday. This has been attributed to the plunge in testing in the weekend from 25,994 to 15,988 in the last 48 hours.
Following a cabinet meeting, Tope said that testing will be increased, which currently stands at 25,000. He also clarified that as the rate of hospitalisation is below 1 per cent, the state has no plans to impose restrictions.
“We have discussed masking implementations but it will not be made mandatory so people will not be penalised like before. But it is advised to wear masks in crowded places and while travelling for their own safety and their loved ones,” he said.
When asked about the five-fold surge in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, Tope claimed that the BA.4 and BA.5–the new variants of Omicron, which are considered more transmissible as the reason behind the surge.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
He also emphasised on getting the precautionary dosage also as called third dose. “Many of the beneficiaries have taken the vaccines nine months prior so, it is advisable to get the third dose. As it is choice-based, people can’t be forced but it will be for their own precaution,” he added.
The Indian Express had reported on June 3 that out of the 36 districts in the state, 11 haven’t administered a single dose in the age group between 18-59 years in Maharashtra.
To address the issue, Soumitra Ghosh from School of Health Systems Studies, TISS voiced to make the precautionary dosages free for patients with severe comorbidities, which would encourage them in getting vaccinated. “If we are heading towards a possible fourth wave, then it is essential that on priority the state administers the third dose to the vulnerable communities. For this, the state should make the dose free of cost for this group,” Ghosh said.