In September 2022, Shah in a meeting with BJP leaders had given them a target of the party getting 150 seats. In the two and a half hour long meeting, Shah told the 13 member BJP Mumbai core Committee that the party should dethrone the Shiv Sena (Uddhav) group’s hold in the civic body and should have its own Mayor.
Emerging from the meeting Shelar said that the party had formed a 7-point plan for the elections. ” We have discussed a plan to contest the polls in an alliance with the Shiv Sena( Eknath Shinde) Republican Party of India (Athavale) and have our own Mayor. Our state President Chandrashekhar Bawankule and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis guided us as to how we are going to go ahead on our task and we submitted a report (to Shah) on the party’s preparations for the civic elections. We are confident that the people would support us and we would emerge victorious.”said Shelar while speaking to reporters on Saturday night.
7-8 attendees of Maha Bhushan award event in Navi Mumbai dead
The ‘Maharashtra Bhushan’ award event in Navi Mumbai on Sunday turned tragic with the death of at least 7-8 people apparently due to sunstroke as the function, attended by lakhs, was held in an open ground.
At least 24 people are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Navi Mumbai, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said.
Earlier in the day, Union home minister Amit Shah conferred the award on Appasaheb Dharmadhikari at the ceremony held in Kharghar area in Raigad district neighbouring Mumbai.
Shinde told reporters outside a hospital in Navi Mumbai on Sunday night that at least 7-8 people have died while at least 24 others are hospitalised.
“As per the briefing received from doctors, 7-8 people died today, while some 24 are being treated. This is a case of sunstroke.
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