Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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| Virugiri at Ram Jhula at Nagpur |
Two Congress Party workers resorted to ‘Virugiri’ on Monday at Ram Jhula demanding early completion of work of cable stayed bridge. High drama was witnessed when the two youth climbed atop the central pillar of the bridge near Santra Market RoB. This was around 2 pm and the stunt of these two youths was enough to cause traffic jam on the one of the most busy road stretch of city.
As the news reached police control room, senior officials took to spot. Maharashtra EGS Minister Dr Nitin Raut who was in city on learning about involvement of Congress Party workers himself went to spot for sorting out the matter. Commissioner of Police Dr Ankush Dhanvijay and District Collector Saurabh Rao too accompanied Raut to cool down the frayed tempers of the agitating youth.
The two youth were identified as Mohanish Jabalpure (28), residing near Chitra Talkies and Anupam Nimgade (26), a resident of Central Avenue. Of the two, Jabalpure is President of Vimukta Jati, Janjati Cell of Nagpur City Congress Committee.
It is learnt that the two reached the pillar by climbing the fifty feet high tower crane deployed by M/s Afcons Ltd., the contractors for Ram Jhula. The tower is around 100 feet height, but the two agitating youth could not inch beyond middle of the tower and sat atop the podium. They flashed a banner demanding immediate completion of the stalled work of Ram Jhula and other bridges in Vidarbha region.
After getting the information staff of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) rushed to the spot and tried to cajole two youth in giving up their agitation. As both youths were workers of Congress Party, City Chief of Congress Jaiprakash Gupta too arrived at the spot and directed the youths to get down from the tower. The youths however did not respond to Gupta’s direction and demanded that EGS minister Raut should come to spot and started shouting slogans to demand immediate end to stalemate over construction of Ram Jhula and other RoBs whose work is going at agonising slow pace in the region.
When word reached Dr Raut he reached the spot at 5 pm. On direction of the Maharashtra Minister the two youths got down from the tower reliving the tense atmosphere at the spot. GRP and RPF staff quickly whisked away the youths for questioning.
Sources claimed that Dr. Raut rapped the youths for putting their life in danger and told the two that the Ram Jhula project would not get completed by such agitation.
Police Inspector of GRP Chandrashekhar Bhabal said that cops recorded statement of youths. As they did not had intention of suicide no offence was registered against them.
As the news reached police control room, senior officials took to spot. Maharashtra EGS Minister Dr Nitin Raut who was in city on learning about involvement of Congress Party workers himself went to spot for sorting out the matter. Commissioner of Police Dr Ankush Dhanvijay and District Collector Saurabh Rao too accompanied Raut to cool down the frayed tempers of the agitating youth.
After getting the information staff of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) rushed to the spot and tried to cajole two youth in giving up their agitation. As both youths were workers of Congress Party, City Chief of Congress Jaiprakash Gupta too arrived at the spot and directed the youths to get down from the tower. The youths however did not respond to Gupta’s direction and demanded that EGS minister Raut should come to spot and started shouting slogans to demand immediate end to stalemate over construction of Ram Jhula and other RoBs whose work is going at agonising slow pace in the region.
Sources claimed that Dr. Raut rapped the youths for putting their life in danger and told the two that the Ram Jhula project would not get completed by such agitation.
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