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umbai Mayor Snehal Ambekar yesterday claimed that the media had exaggerated the intensity of the dengue outbreak in the city, only to clarify later that she had been "misconstrued". "Dengue is an epidemic, but the media has blown it out of proportions. You (the media) are making it look like a very big problem, which is why I visited the Rajawadi hospital to see the dengue patients," Ambekar said yesterday after her visit to the suburban hospital. According to the municipal corporation, the disease has claimed 12 lives in the city and over 700 cases of infection have been reported till the first week of November. Ambekar said that instead of targeting the administration, the media should inspect the houses and look out for stagnant water where mosquitoes breed. “Though the number of reported cases has increased this year, the number of deaths has gone down," she claimed. However, later, in the evening, she defended her statements saying, “I was only trying to say that there are many people who are admitted to hospital only as suspected cases, but they fear they have dengue. Who has put this fear in them? Media has not provided a complete picture of the existing situation. BMC is trying every possible solution to curb this menace," Ambekar said. The opposition leaders of the BMC are very disappointed by Continued on pg 8 «
y fielding its senior legislator from Parner, Vijay Auti as its candidate for the post of legislative assembly Speaker, the Shiv Sena yesterday used it as a bargaining chip with its estranged ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over pinching two more cabinet berths. At the same time Sena president Uddhav Thackeray indicated that he had kept the doors for negotiations with the Sena open till today morning as he was still expecting a positive response from the BJP. Speaking to ADC yesterday, a senior BJP minister disclosed that around 21 Sena MLAs had ap-
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ter claimed support of 140 MLAs in BJP's favour arguing that the BJP, besides its own 121 MLAs was enjoying the support of 19 more MLAs from smaller parties and Independent MLAs. The half-way mark to win the Speaker's post is 145 votes. The BJP is already claiming support of 140 MLAs. In a three-way contest, legislature sources indicated that the ruling BJP stands better chance of winning the Speaker's election. Haribhau Bagade of BJP, Varsha Gaikwad of Congress and Vijay Auti of the Shiv Sena. Since voting to this post is by secret ballot, in case the three candidates proached him and expressed their leader stated that the party has poll almost equal votes then a rewillingness to resign from their firmly said “no” to any attempts to poll will be held with the elimination membership and seek re-election on split the Sena as it wanted the Sena Continued on pg 8 « BJP ticket. However, the senior BJP to join the government. The minis-