Mumbai News Live Updates Oct 10, 2022: The Election Commission allotted the name Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and flaming torch symbol to the Shiv Sena faction led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray. Meanwhile, the CM Eknath Shinde faction has been asked to submit a new list of symbols.
A day after the Election Commission (EC) of India froze Shiv Sena’s name and bow and arrow poll symbol, party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday slammed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Sena faction along with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while terming the poll panel’s order as an “injustice” towards him and the party. In a virtual address to the Sena cadre and people of Maharashtra, Uddhav called the Shinde faction a 40-headed Ravana who took away Lord Rama’s “bow and arrow”, which was also dear to late Sena founder Bal Thackeray.
THE MUMBAI Fire Brigade will on Monday issue a notice to the Rail View Housing society in New Tilak Nagar near Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, where a fire was reported on Saturday afternoon in which six residents were injured and were admitted to a hospital. On Sunday, Hemant Parab, Chief Fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade said, “The building’s firefighting system was not operational at the time of the fire. The fire brigade reached the site of the fire on Saturday and noticed this. On Monday, the fire brigade will issue a notice to the building under Section 6 of the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006.”
A special court allowed former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, arrested in a money laundering case, to undergo coronary angiography at a private hospital in Mumbai.
The judge said after the test is done, the veteran politician should be immediately sent back to the jail and asked the prison authorities to submit a report of the heart scan before the court. The court permitted Deshmukh's daughter and wife to remain present with him during hospitalization for the medical test. (PTI)
Leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction have said the present turmoil in the party is just a passing phase and expressed confidence that the Sena will "rise again like a phoenix".
MLA Bhaskar Yadav of the Uddhav Thackeray faction said the Shiv Sena under the leadership of Thackerays has witnessed several ups and downs. Jadhav claimed the day is not far when Fadnavis will take away Shinde's chair.
Sena MP Vinayak Raut said the efforts by opponents and betrayers to finish off the Sena will not work and the party will once again rise with full zeal.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena deputy leader Sushma Andhare claimed that CM Shinde was just a puppet in the hands of the BJP. (PTI)
The Shiv Sena said it is a “bushfire” that can never be extinguished and promised to “bounce back” from the Election Commission’s decision to freeze the party’s name and symbol, which the Uddhav Thackeray faction claimed was nothing short of “injustice”.
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A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to steal the phone of former Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who was travelling by train from his hometown of Solapur to Mumbai.
According to the Government Railway Police, Shinde, also a former Maharashtra chief minister, saw a man stealing his phone as he returned from the toilet and the train neared the Dadar station around 6am on October 6. Read more
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s clarion call to put an end to varna and jati and bury the age-old tradition of casteism may sound ideal. But to what extent it will unlock minds to bring about the transformation into reality remains a big question.
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Police on Monday arrested a transgender person and are on the lookout for a husband-wife duo who allegedly teamed up to attack another transgender person, who identifies as a woman, by forcing her to consume phenyl and slashing her on the back and hand with a blade in a suburban area of the city during the wee hours of Sunday.
The incident took place around 1.45 am as the complainant was walking on the road with her “Guru” when three persons arrived at the spot in a rickshaw and attacked her. While the transgender person caught the complainant's hair, the man held her hand and made her consume phenyl even as his wife assaulted the victim on her back and hand with a blade.
Due to the drop in demand for Covid-19 vaccines, Maharashtra’s net waste of Corbevax, India's first indigenously developed RBD protein subunit vaccine, is 14.31 per cent — higher than the estimated allowable vaccine waste of 10 per cent.
Corbevax was introduced on March 16. A total of 17 districts in the state have recorded net vaccine wastage above 15 per cent. The most waste was in Parbhani at 31.14 per cent followed by Palghar (27.64 per cent), Amravati (25.55 per cent), Gondia (25.44 per cent) and Buldhana (22.67 per cent).
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and MLC Anil Parab said the Andheri East bypoll will be fought by the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance together. 'The NCP and Congress have declared their support to the Sena candidate. Our candidate will file the nomination on Thursday and the leaders of all the three parties - Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP - will be there while filing the nomination,' he said.
Shiv Sena has fielded Rutuja Latke for the bypoll.
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The Election Commission denied Trishul and Gada (mace) as poll symbols to rival Shiv Sena factions, citing religious connotations, PTI reported.
While the flaming torch symbol was allotted to the Uddhav-led faction, the CM Shinde-led faction was asked to submit a fresh list of symbols.
The Election Commission allotted the name Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and flaming torch symbol to the Shiv Sena faction led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray. Meanwhile, the CM Eknath Shinde faction has been asked to submit a new list of symbols.
The spokesperson for the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction Deepak Kesarkar said that the BJP may have announced a candidate for the Andheri East bypoll, but the final name will only come out once the alliance is confirmed,
"It (candidate's name) will be announced only when both Fadnavis and Shinde along with BJP state president hold a press conference. No decision has yet been taken" Kesarkar said.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction moved the Delhi HC seeking quashing of an Election Commission order freezing the party name and election symbol.
CM Eknath Shinde's faction has approached the Election Commission with its choice of three symbols for the party. The three options of Shinde faction are Rising sun, Trishul (trident) and Mace (gada).
Two of the symbols - rising sun and Trishul - have also been submitted as choices by the Uddhav Thackray-led faction. Additionally, these symbols are also not in the list of free symbols.
The interim name of the party also has name of Balasaheb Thackeray.
On the occasion of World Homeless Day, which is observed on October 10, Mohd Tarique, Director, Koshish, a Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitution by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences , speaks to Zeeshan Shaikh on the causes of homelessness, the increasing criminality of poverty by archaic, punitive laws, and the need for the state to account for the vulnerabilities of the poor while designing development policies and programmes. Read the interview here
Radhika Salve, 43, sustained an injury on October 5 when she fell from a running bus while deboarding. She was rushed to the civic-run tertiary-care hospital—BYL Nair Hospital. After she was admitted, Salve was immediately advised for a CT scan of her brain.
But to her surprise, the doctors informed her she would have to travel four kilometre to a diagnostic centre for the scan. “When I fell down, I brushed my hands and legs. Though I didn’t sustain any fracture, I had badly hurt my head which was painful. So, the doctor asked me to undergo a CT scan. But later, they informed us that the CT scan machine wasn’t functioning,” recollected Salve. Know more...
Eknath Shinde-led faction of the Sena held a meeting at the residence of the Chief Minister to decide on their poll symbol late on Sunday night.
While different options were discussed at the meeting, nothing was finalised. A leader said since the faction was following the ideology of Hindutva, symbols like Tutari (trumpet), talwar (sword) and gada (blunt mace) were shortlisted. The final call in the regard will be taken on Monday morning and options submitted to the poll panel by 1pm, the leader added. Read more here
"The demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav ji closes a chapter in Indian politics. Son of the soil, he led the socialist movement with the likes of Lohia & JP. Respected across party lines, his wit & vision will be always remembered. All my condolences to his family. May he rest in peace," said NCP state president Jayant Patil.
NCP president Sharad Pawar said "India's Samajwadi movement has lost its stalwart. We are deeply sadnned by his demise. The loss is irreparable. On behalf of my party and me personally extend our deepest condolences to the family Mulayam Singh Yadav".
The weather forecast predicted a partly cloudy sky with light to moderate rain/thundershowers in the city and suburbs.