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

  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,...

Make BJP the world’s biggest political party: Danve

By Dheeraj Fartode
Exhorting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers for membership drive, BJP state president Raosaheb Danve on Thursday laid before them the road map for reaching out to masses with good work done by party Government in Centre and in State. Setting the target the new State chief said we intend to make BJP the world’s biggest political party. “We have to enroll one crore party members in the State and 10 crore in the country to reach the target and surpass Chinese Communist Party's base of eight crore members, he further said.
Addressing party workers here, Danve further said, Government employees can become party members in China, however it is not so in India. He asked party workers to take the assignment on priority basis.
Former MP and senior BJP leader Banwarilal Purohit, Member of Rajya Sabha, Ajay Sancheti, BJP’s State Organising Secretary, Ravindra Bhusari, Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Mayor Pravin Datke, City unit chief and MLA Krishna Khopde, District Cheif Dr Rajiv Potadar, MLAs Dr Milind Mane, Sudhakar Kohale, Sudhir Parwe, Ashish Deshmukh, Sameer Meghe, Mallikarjun Reddy, MLC Anil Sole, ZP President Nisha Savarkar, Girish Vyas, Sanjay Bhende, Ashok Mankar and others were present on the dais.
The newly appointed State president stated that the party would take care of its active party workers. The party would take action against its Ministers if they do not pay attention towards grievances of party workers. Recalling old days, Danve said he used to travel 65 km per day on bi-cycle for enrollment of party members and cautioned party workers not to take good days for granted.
Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said that people have lot of expectation from BJP-Sena Government and party would take all efforts to fulfill the promises. All ministers of State Government are working hard resolve all issues but it will take some time as former Congress-NCP Government had thoroughly bankrupted the State treasury,” said Bawankule. The membership will directly help party workers in upcoming election of local self government bodies.
City unit chief Krishna Khopde said that the unit would take all efforts to break last record of three lakh members. “The unit have planned target of six lakh members and 2.35 lakh has already enrolled,” he said. The party workers had worked hard in the last elections and that resulted in party winning all seats in the city. Dr Rajiv Potdar said, the party had enrolled 1.5 lakh members last time and this time the figure will go upto five lakh.

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