The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
By Dheeraj Fartode
Former National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nitin Gadkari and Shiv Sena leader Krupal Tumane, on Saturday, filed their nomination papers for Nagpur and Ramtek Lok Sabha (LS) constituencies respectively after a huge rally taken out from Samvidhan Square.
The rally was a show of strength of the ‘Mahayuti’ comprising BJP, Shiv Sena, and RPI (Athawale). Gadkari and Tumane both paid floral tributes at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar statue at Samvidhan Square. Later, Gadkari garlanded statue of Nagpur’s founder Raje Bakht Buland Shah. The rally reached the District Collectorate in a huge procession. Gadkari and Tumane submitted their nomination papers before the Returning Officers of Nagpur and Ramtek constituencies at Collectorate at 2.30 pm.
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| BJP candidate Nitin Gadkari and other leaders |
Former MP Banwarilal Purohit, BJP State chief Devendra Fadanvis, Leader of Opposition (Legislative Council) Vinod Tawade, Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Sancheti; BJP MLAs Krishna Khopde, Vikas Kumbhare, and Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Sudhakar Deshmukh; Shiv Sena MLA Adv Ashish Jaiswal, Mayor Anil Sole, Zilla Parishad President Sandhya Gotmare, Deputy Mayor Jaitunbi Ashfaque Ansari, Bhupesh Thulkar of RPI (A), Shiv Sena district chief Shekhar Sawarbandhe, Pandurang Burade, Suraj Goje, Karan Tuli, BJP leader Girish Vyas, Ramesh Mankar, Ashish Deshmukh, Rajiv Potdar, Shrikant Bharatiya, Sanjay Bhende,Sanjay Fanje, Dharmapal Meshram, Sandip Joshi, Prabhakar Yeole, Dr Chhotu Bhoyar, Vickey Kukreja, Kishor Wankhede, Narendra Borkar, Kailash Chute, Sanjay Bangale, Guddu Trivedi, Sandip Jadhav, Dilip Choudhary, Ram Gupta, Shyam Chandekar, Amol Thakre, Kalpana Pande, Archana Dehankar, Chetna Tank, Dr Kirtida Ajmera, Anupama Mishra, Ashok Dhote, Chandan Goswami and a host of prominent leaders of BJP-Sena-RPI (A) were present on this occasion.
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| BJP candidate from Nagpur constituency Nitin Gadkari waves to supporters during a rally taken out before filing nomination papers. |
After filing nomination papers, Gadkari, who is contesting Lok Sabha election for the first time, said that development of Nagpur city was priority on his agenda. “City’s development will get a boost. Nagpur will emerge on global map when I become MP,” said Gadkari. Without naming seven-term MP of Congress from the city Vilas Muttemwar, Gadkari said that the city’s development remained a neglected area for 25 years. Expressing confidence about his victory, the BJP candidate said that lakhs of people including even the Congress leaders were supporting him.
When reporters asked him about Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Anjali Damania’s allegations, Gadkari refused to comment.
Addressing a rally of supporters after filing nomination, Gadkari said that he would try to provide gainful employment to one lakh unemployed youths if he won the election. He also appealed to the party cadre to join poll-campaign till polling date. He asked the cadres to focus on house-to-house, man-to-man, and heart-to-heart campaign.
Shiv Sena candidate Krupal Tumane, who filed nomination papers from Ramtek constituency, fired fresh salvo at Congress’ heavyweight leader and Ramtek MP Mukul Wasnik. “He has performed only bhoomipujan in Ramtek constituency. MIHAN is struggling to attract investment and Wasnik, who is senior leader of Congress, has not shown any interest,” he said. More than 80 per cent voters of Ramtek constituency are farmers and Shiv Sena will fight for them, he said. Development and employment were high on his agenda, he added.
AAP’s Anjali Damania
also files nomination
AAP’s Anjali Damania
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency Anjali Damania also filed her nomination papers at Collectorate on Saturday in early working hours.
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| AAP candidate from Nagpur constituency coming out of the office of District Election Officer after filing her nomination papers on Saturday. |
The AAP candidate reached Collectorate with only four party workers. Later, Damania told reporters that AAP was here to change political patterns in the country. Hence, she said, she had asked AAP workers not to create crowd for filing nomination papers. “Why huge political gathering is required for only filing nomination. Do the political leaders want to show their strength to District Collector?” she wondered. Many social organisations urged her to arrange rally while filing nomination papers and she denied their request, she informed. “AAP has not only changed politics in India, but also has set a new trend for politicians,” she added.
Firing a fresh salvo at BJP once again, Damania asked as to why Narendra Modi chose to address a poll rally at Wardha and not Nagpur. “BJP and Congress both are our rivals and AAP is contesting the election with full confidence,” she reiterated.
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