Thane: BJP forests and politician Ganesh Naik announced his second ‘Janta Darbar‘In the city next month after the response received to the inaugural event on Monday, which saw more than 550 applications.
While political observers see this as a new BJP attempt to dig in the heels in the strength of Shiv Sena de Thane, Naik, who was also anointed as the ‘Sampark Pramukh’ for the district, dismissed these advances and maintained that simply simply I was following the instructions given by Prime Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
The idea of Darbar is to bring citizens closer to the administration instead of making them travel to the State’s headquarters in Mantalaya, he said. Mahayuti works without problems with the same participation as Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and NCP led by Ajit Pawar, he said.
“I was the Minister of Guardian of Thane for almost three terms and I made such Darbars in the past too. I recently schedu dissatisfied since their problems are still pending.
“We solved some problems today, while the rest were sent to the interested departments. I will make my second ‘janta janta’ next month and I will review,” he told reporters.
Even when Naik openly ruled out the speculation of BJP that tried to make raids in the district, those in political circles talked about their ambition to exercise control over the region in view of their work and ground connection. “Naik was Guardian Minister for three periods, but then he limited himself to Navi Mumbai after Shinde got up inside the region in recent years,” said an observer. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena deputy, Naresh Mhash, refuted the speculation that BJP was trying to control Thane, saying that Naik was a senior Mahayuti leader and that there was no reason for his party to oppose his Darbars. “We also have daily public meetings but do not announce it.”