Updated On: 01 September, 2024 11:39 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said the agitation over the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue incident is political and neither MVA nor Congress respected the Maratha King. Police and other security personnel have been deployed throughout Mumbai ahead of the protest march. Meanwhile, BJP started counter-protest against MVA in Dadar
Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders at Hutatma Chowk in Mumbai, on Sunday, September 1.
The Mumbai Police have tightened security across the city amid opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi`s (MVA) call for a protest march against the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj`s statue in Sindhudurg district. Leaders from MVA, which comprises the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Congress, began gathering at Hutatma Chowk on Sunday, September 1, around 10 am to hold a protest march till the Gateway of India.
#WATCH | MVA holds a protest march in Mumbai over Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj`s statue collapse incident.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Anil Desai says, "PM was emotional, he expressed his grief over the incident but the government of Maharashtra, which should have expressed themselves,… pic.twitter.com/5Pze6maAnK