Guwahati: Amid the political crisis in Maharashtra, section 144 of CrPc has been imposed in Mumbai city on Saturday.
Mumbai Police issued a high alert and ordered all police stations to provide security at all political offices in the city following reports of Shiv Sainiks allegedly ransacking the offices of dissident MPs.
It has been ordered that officer-level police officers visit each political office to ensure their protection.
Workers for the Shiv Sena demonstrated against the party’s dissident MLAs and set fire to effigies outside the Kharghar headquarters. Workers for the Shiv Sena broke into Tanaji Sawant’s rebel party office in Pune. Sawant is one of the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs of the Eknath Shinde faction and is currently camping in Guwahati in Assam.
Meanwhile, rebel Shiv Sena leader and state cabinet minister Eknath Shinde wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday regarding the alleged “malicious” removal of security from the families of the 38 MLAs who were camping with him in a Guwahati hotel.
Shinde said that the security provided to the MLAs at their residence and to their family members in accordance with protocol had been illegally and unlawfully withdrawn as retaliation in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and State Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil. However, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil denied Shinde claimed that security had been withdrawn.
Thackeray stepped up the ante and said those who want to leave can do so and communicated directly with Shiv Sainiks and mid-level functionaries. He also met NCP president Sharad Pawar, whose party is the second largest constituent in the ruling MVA alliance, as the four-day-old political crisis showed no signs of heading towards a resolution. The crisis was caused by a revolt by a group of Sena MLAs led by cabinet minister Shinde.