THANE/KALYAN: Activists of the Raj Thackeray-led MNS demolished illegal hawkers' stalls and beat up one of the vital distributors out of doors Thane, Kalyan and Dombivli railway stations on Saturday morning. The party claimed to have evicted over 50 hawkers in all (25 in Thane and 15 each in Kalyan and Dombivli) and justified its vandalism saying the "action" came after the tip of the 15-day time limit set for the railways by way of its chief to clear all stations of illegal hawkers.
Raj had warned of motion all over his party's protest in opposition to railway government at Churchgate after the September 29 Elphinstone Road stampede that claimed 23 lives. Fifty MNS staff had been booked by way of Government Railway Police in Dombivli for Saturday's violence, while 10 had been booked in Thane by way of Thane Nagar police station for unlawful meeting and rioting. The MNS additionally blamed municipal government in Thane and Kalyan-Dombivli for "the hawker menace that endangers commuter safety."
Around 35 slogan-shouting MNS activists arrived on the Kalyan finish of Thane station adjoining platform 2 at nine:30am and began smashing wares and evicting hawkers from across the entry-exit issues. They then headed to the Mulund finish of the station and got rid of the hawkers there. They left after warning the hawkers now not to return. One hawker advised TOI more hawkers would had been hit and their stalls broken if they'd now not left the spot soon once they heard of the MNS vandalism close by.
In Kalyan and Dombivli, MNS staff entered the station premises however, discovering no hawkers there, vandalized stalls out of doors the stations. The Dombivli GRP booked MNS staff for wearing out a protest within the station premises without permission, senior inspector G C Hiremath stated.
Avinash Jadhav, Thane city chief of MNS, stated they had been compelled to come back out on the streets as railway and municipal government had failed of their tasks. "We are just doing what ideally the authorities should have done," Jadhav stated.
Hawkers out of doors Thane station have earlier been blamed for blocking off pedestrian areas and for violence. Also, past makes an attempt to evict them have met with resistance, with a deputy municipal commissioner having been reportedly assaulted all over a recent pressure.Many hawkers function in areas where there is a struggle between railways and civic frame over jurisdiction, and commuters have demanded co-ordinated motion so hawkers don't temporarily shift to 'the opposite aspect' when one authority takes motion.
Raj had warned of motion all over his party's protest in opposition to railway government at Churchgate after the September 29 Elphinstone Road stampede that claimed 23 lives. Fifty MNS staff had been booked by way of Government Railway Police in Dombivli for Saturday's violence, while 10 had been booked in Thane by way of Thane Nagar police station for unlawful meeting and rioting. The MNS additionally blamed municipal government in Thane and Kalyan-Dombivli for "the hawker menace that endangers commuter safety."
Around 35 slogan-shouting MNS activists arrived on the Kalyan finish of Thane station adjoining platform 2 at nine:30am and began smashing wares and evicting hawkers from across the entry-exit issues. They then headed to the Mulund finish of the station and got rid of the hawkers there. They left after warning the hawkers now not to return. One hawker advised TOI more hawkers would had been hit and their stalls broken if they'd now not left the spot soon once they heard of the MNS vandalism close by.
In Kalyan and Dombivli, MNS staff entered the station premises however, discovering no hawkers there, vandalized stalls out of doors the stations. The Dombivli GRP booked MNS staff for wearing out a protest within the station premises without permission, senior inspector G C Hiremath stated.
Avinash Jadhav, Thane city chief of MNS, stated they had been compelled to come back out on the streets as railway and municipal government had failed of their tasks. "We are just doing what ideally the authorities should have done," Jadhav stated.
Hawkers out of doors Thane station have earlier been blamed for blocking off pedestrian areas and for violence. Also, past makes an attempt to evict them have met with resistance, with a deputy municipal commissioner having been reportedly assaulted all over a recent pressure.Many hawkers function in areas where there is a struggle between railways and civic frame over jurisdiction, and commuters have demanded co-ordinated motion so hawkers don't temporarily shift to 'the opposite aspect' when one authority takes motion.
MNS justifies vandalism at stations, blames railways for inaction
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