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I come here to open your eyes and not provoke you. Shiv Sena never discriminates among people while helping them when it comes to blood donation or taking patients to hospitals in their ambulances. If we are together for five years why should we be separate during elections?

—Uddhav Thackeray, Former CM sole guardian of the sons-of-the-soil and has led violent agitations against north Indians in the past.

Thackeray said he walked out of the alliance with BJP to protect his dignity and joined hands with the NCP and

Congress to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) after the 2019 Assembly polls.

“Otherwise I would have been a slave with a collar around my neck just like some of my people have now become,” he said in an apparent reference to the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who have moved to the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

Thackeray accused the BJP of creating a rift among Hindus, adding that everyone should come together to protect the freedom achieved from the British.

First India Bureau Nashik: As much as 4,000kg of local savoury favourite ‘bhagar’ was prepared on Sunday in Nashik in Maharashtra in honour of the United Nations declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets on a proposal by India.

Chef Vishnu Manohar said a team of 16 cooks used 400kg of barnyard millet, 250kg potatoes, 37kg salt, 125kg oil, 2,700 litres of water, 400kg curd, 100 litres of milk, 100kg peanuts and 12kg cumin seeds to prepare the dish in a pan that weighed 1.5 tonnes. The three ladles used to mix the dish weighed 22kg each, he explained. The food was given to various NGOs involved in welfare of the poor as well as medical colleges and other such units.

Nagpur (PTI): Members of women SelfHelp Groups (SHGs) will chant the Hanuman Chalisa in front of the office of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Nagpur city on Monday to draw his attention to their demands.

On Sunday, the police in the city increased safety measures at the office of Deputy Chief Minister Fadnavis, who is the representative of the Nagpur south-west Assembly constituency, due to the demonstration that had been called for that day.

Members of women SHGs have been staging protests in Nagpur city, the hometown of Fadnavis, for a week demanding the release of the honorarium which they claimed has been withheld by the state government.

Members of women SHGs have been demanding that the state govt release the honorarium which they claim is being withheld

Nihal Pande, a representative of the protesters, announced that a march will be conducted from Samvidhan Square to Trikoni Park, close to the residence of Deputy Chief Minister Fadnavis, on Monday morning. “The women will read Hanuman Chalisa so that the eyes of Fadnavis will open,” Pande said.

14-year-old girl’s uncle and cousin held for raping her

Mumbai (PTI):

Mumbai Police have arrested a 14-year-old girl’s uncle and a cousin for allegedly raping her, an official said on Sunday.

The girl’s parents approached the Virar police with a complaint, after she told them of the incident, which allegedly took place when the girl visited her 50-yearold uncle’s home in suburban Borivali between 2014 and September 2022, he said, adding that the girl and her parents live in Virar town.

Based on the complaint, the police registered an FIR, the official from MHB police station in Mumbai said. The case was later transferred to the MHB police station as the incident took place in Mumbai, he said.

The city police swung into action and nabbed the girl’s uncle