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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  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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Nitin Gadkari predicts splendid victory of BJP

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By Dheeraj Fartode
Confident about victory in ensuing Assembly election, Bharatiya Janta Party leader and Union minister for surface transport Nitin Gadkari on Monday urged voters to decisively vote for BJP to boost development of Maharashtra. “BJP will strengthen Maharasthra in sectors including infrastructure, employment, industries, farmers, women safety and usher the state to developmental path and wipe out lethargy and inertia of past 15 years,”, said Gadkari predicting spledid victory of all BJP candidates from district with impressive margins.

Addressing a massive rally at Golibar square in support of BJP candidate from Central Nagpur Vikas Kumbhare and Krishna Khopde for East Nagpur constituency, Gadkari sharpened his attack against Congress and Nationalist Congress Party and said that both parties have dumped the state to 6th number as far as development is concerned, state is paying price for electing such leahtargic and inefficient government. The state is under huge debt burden of Rs 3 lakh crore. After spending Rs 70,000 crore, the state achieved barely 0.01 per cent irrigation. This is what the Congress-NCP government had done in last 15 years, Gadkari stated while launching blistering attack against Congress and NCP.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari and others greeting
voters at the rally on Monday.

Pointing out misgovernance of Congress-NCP, former MP Banwarilal Purohit said that there was no governance in the state as all leaders were involved in the massive corruption. He specifically targetted former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pwar for brazen corruption in the irrigation sector. Praising good governance by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union minister Gadkari, the senior BJP leader hoped that city would be front runner for development project across the country. He also praised progress of Halba community, which is major factor in the Central Nagpur.

Former MP Banwarilal Purohit, Bhojpuri singer and MP Manoj Tiwari, Mayor Pravin Datke, MLC Anil Sole, former standing committee chief Dayashankar Tiwari, BJP leader Adv Ajay Agrawal, BJP Madhya Pradesh Unit chief and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, former Mayor Archana Dehankar, BJP spokesperson Girish Vyas, BJP leader Jaiprakash Gupta, former Mayor Deverao Umredkar and others were present on the dais. 

BJP MP and Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari appealed people to vote for Kumbhare and presented a song during the programme. Krishna Khopde and Vikas Kumbhare assured the voters to continue with their progressive agenda under the leadership of Union minister Gadkari. 
Adv Agrawal said that the city would definitely emerge as modern city of the country and CM of Maharashtra would be from Nagpur.

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