Dussehra 2023 LIVE: Massive Preps in Mumbai, Traffic Curbs for Sena vs Sena Rallies; Mohan Bhagwat, Shankar Mahadevan at RSS Event

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) kickstarted its annual Vijayadashami Utsav at Nagpur’s Reshimbaug ground.

The Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the annual Dussehra rally held at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park has been a tradition and is a legacy of more than five decades, and claimed it is only a Thackeray who gives the vision and road map for Maharashtra and the country from the venue.

Raut further claimed that Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray’s speech at the Dussehra rally will be the “beginning of a change” in the state and at the national level in 2024.

The Rajya Sabha member termed the Dussehra rally to be organised by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as “duplicate”, claiming it is acceptable only to “duplicate people in the BJP”.

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Singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan reached the Nagpur’s Reshimbaug ground for the RSS Vijayadashami event. He was received by the Sangh’s chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari arrived at the RSS Vijayadashami Utsav event in Nagpur.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members organised ‘Path Sanchalan‘ (route march) on the occasion of RSS Vijayadashami Utsav and in the presence of their Chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Traffic restrictions will be in place for Dussehra rallies of two Shiv Sena factions, Durga Visarajan and the ICC World Cup match between South Africa and Bangladesh today.

The ‘Dussehra Melava’ function of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) will be held at Shivaji Park in Dadar (West) and a huge crowd is expected to gather for the said event, due to which, massive traffic congestion will be reported at Western Express Highway, Eastern Express Highway, and nearby roads leading towards the venue, the official notification by Mumbai police stated.

According to Mumbai traffic police, the restrictions will be in effect from 9:00 am till midnight in the Shivaji Park area on Dussehra day.

Traffic Advisory:

– No vehicles will be allowed on SVS Road from Siddhivinayak Mandir Junction to Kapad Bazar Junction, Mahim. – No vehicles will be allowed from Raja Badhe Chowk junction to Keluskar Marg (North) junction, Dadar. – No vehicles will be allowed on Lt. Dilip Gupte Road from its Junction on Pandurang Naik Marg for Southbound traffic. – No vehicles will be allowed on Dadasahaeb Rege Road From Senapati Bapat Statue to Gadkari Junction.

Check the full advisory with parking restriction details here.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will hold its annual Vijayadashami Utsav in Maharashtra’s Nagpur on today, for which singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan was invited as the chief guest.

The customary gathering will be addressed by the Sangh’s chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Reshimbaug ground which is an integral part of the organisation’s event calendar, a release said.

The patha sanchalan or road march will be taken out at around 6.20 am from CP & Berar College Gate and Reshimbagh ground, while the main event will start at 7.40 am, it said.

More than 15,000 Mumbai police personnel have deployed on duty at the venues of Dussehra rallies of the Thackeray and Shinde factions of Shiv Sena. Other events in the city include Goddess Durga idol immersion and an ICC cricket World Cup match.

Considering that a large number of people come out on streets during the immersion processions, police are being deployed at all prominent places, the official said.

As many as 12,449 lower-rank personnel, 2,496 officers, 45 Assistant Commissioners of Police, 16 Deputy Commissioners and half a dozen Additional Commissioners of the city force are being deployed across the financial capital, he said.

Besides the Mumbai cops, 33 State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) platoons (around 100 each), Quick Response Teams and Home Guards are being mobilised for duty for the multiple events in the metropolis, the official added.

This year again, Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Shinde-led faction will hold rallies in Mumbai to claim themselves as the true inheritor of the founder Bal Thackeray’s legacy.

Ever since the split in Shiv Sena in June last year, the two factions have been engaged in a tussle to claim the legacy.

While Uddhav Thackeray will address his party’s Dussehra rally at the sprawling Shivaji Park in Dadar, the traditional venue of the event where Bal Thackeray charged up his workers with his fiery oration for more than four decades, Shinde’s rally will be at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai.

In the run-up to the rallies, the Thackeray faction has released several video clips of Bal Thackeray’s speeches, especially those highlighting action that needs to be taken against defectors. On the other hand Shinde faction’s teasers about its rally have Bal Thackeray’s speeches where he has robustly embraced the cause of Hindutva.