The tension between the the Marashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Devendar Fadnavis BJP Deputy Chief Minister is at a all time high .

It all started when a full page advertisement came out that said Modi for India and Shinde for Maharashtra. The ad carried a survey which projected Shinde more popular than former state CM Fadnavis. The ad has upset the Maharashtra BJP unit.

The reason being. the BJP had projected Fadnavis as the CM face of the state in the 2019 assembly elections. The BJP in the past had run a similar advertisement in Marathi daily saying Deshat Narendre and Rajyat Devendre meaning Narendra for nation and Devendra for Maharashtra. The latest advertisement said 16.2% people prefer Shiv Sena and 30.2% prefer BJP and this shows 46.4% people trust the ruling Shinde-Fadnavis alliance for the growth and development of the state.

According to the survey done for the CM position, 23.2% give preference to Fadnavis as CM whereas 26.1% of the people prefer Shinde as CM. 49.3% of the state population wish to see a strong ruling alliance for the state’s leadership.

However the BJP state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said 2024 polls will tell who is more popular. He added such advertisements and surveys have no credibility. He said the advertisement does not have any  significance. He further added that the people of the state will give their final decision in the 2024 elections.

He said the people of Maharashtra are fond of the leadership of Fadnavis, PM Modi and CM Shinde. He said Fadnavis had sworn as CM twice and is popular among the people

Nationalist Congress party leader Chagan Bhujbal said  normally the advertisement given in the newspaper carries the photographs of both the leaders but this time surprisingly Fadnavis was missing in it. He questioned the authenticity of the figures mentioned in the advertisement.

In yet another case of a suicide incident in Rajasthan’s Kota, an IIT aspirant takes his life while his parents were visiting him and had gone out to buy breakfast.

According to police, a 17-year-old JEE aspirant hanged himself in his hostel room, the eleventh case of suspected suicide this year by a student taking classes at this coaching hub.

The Police further added, the aspirant Bhargav Keshav’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room at Rajiv Gandhi Nagar in the Jawahar Nagar area.  

Keshav, a student of class 11, preparing for the IIT JEE at a coaching institute for the last two months, was a resident of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra.

DSP Amar Singh said, on Monday, the boy allegedly hanged himself to death when his parents visit him earlier in the morning on the same day to meet him. The moment they stepped out to arrange breakfast, the boy hanged himself . He further added when his parents returned to the hostel with breakfast for their son, they found that the door locked from inside. They called the caretaker and informed him about the same. The caretaker peeped through the window and found Keshav’s body hanging from the ceiling fan.  

They rushed Keshav to the hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. The police is yet to find the reason behind this suspected suicide. As per the police, no suicide note has been recovered from his room. Parents are shocked and clueless about the alleged suicide.

During the preliminary investigation by the police, one of the victim’s classmates said Keshav was sincere in his studies. The deceased’s body was handed over to his parents after the post-mortem and a case of unnatural death was lodged under section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

As the report says, the latest incident is the eleventh case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota this year so far. At least 15 students died by suicide last year.

More than 2.25 lakh students are estimated to be taking classes in various coaching centers in the city this academic session to crack entrance exams of medical and engineering colleges.

As the blaze of the deadly fire spread across the seven storey Satpura Bhawan in Bhopal on Tuesday, destroyed the government offices and documents as well. The rescue operations were being carried out to douse the fire and its its damage to life and property.

The fire tragedy is now raising alarm putting up a question of why a Rs 5.5 crore brand new hydraulic ladder remain unused during the rescue operations, which was parked just 40 m away from the site of the incident. The Fire fighting machine had been bought nine months ago to help in the fire fighting operations for up to 18 story building.

As per reports, the machine had not been cleared by the regional transport office.  According to senior fire officials, another reason cited for not using the fire fighting machine was the lack of trained firefighters who could operate the machine. The Army and the Indian Air Force jointly involved, which took 14 hours to them to bring down the fire.

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narrotam Mishra said there was no space for the hydraulic machine to pass through. An order had been passed earlier by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that there should be enough space in big buildings for fire fighting vehicles to enter.

Earlier the fire fighters were using step ladders and machines which could be used only to reach three to four story. The same ladders was used in yesterday’s rescue operation. According to reports four to five people, who had been trained for the rescue operation were unavailable at the time of the incident.

The fire started at 4pm yesterday from Satpura Bhawan’s third floor. The building housed the regional office of Tribal Welfare Department. The fire spread rapidly to the three upper floors of the building.

The fire spread and came in contact with air conditioners and some gas cylinders, which led to multiple blasts and spreading of the fire rapidly. Bhopal Chief Commissioner said the fire happened due to a short circuit. He further added that a team had been formed to investigate the incident.