THANE: The BJP and the MNS came down heavily on the state government on Wednesday over the attack on a woman municipal official, questioning if Maharashtra was under ‘goondaraj’.
They also promised to handle the illegal hawker menace if the authorities failed to do so. Condemning the attack on assistant municipal commissioner Kalpita Pimpale, MNS president Raj Thackeray urged the municipal corporation and the ruling party to hold an iron fist over such lawless hawkers. “The menace of illegal hawkers has to be reined in. We will also keep a check on the situation here on,” he said while talking to the media after meeting the injured officer.
The party had previously written to the Thane police, claiming all women deployed on such risky field jobs would henceforth be provided security cover by local MNS activists. Senior BJP leader Chitra Wagh, who was in the city and spoke to the media, questioned the situation in the state where even municipal employees were being brutally attacked. “There is no safety for residents, and now even officials are being blatantly attacked. It seems the state is under goondaraj,” she said.
