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Delimitation of Thane: Chavan calls Vasai
marchers for talks
Saturday, October 02, 2010 06:20:10 PM,
IANS
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Thane/Mumbai: The Maharashtra government, yielding to
pressure, invited villagers of Vasai for talks as they started
their march Saturday — the birth anniversary of Mahatma gandhi —
to protest redrawing of municipal limits in Thane district, a
protester said.
The government invited Vasai’s independent legislator Vivek Pandit
for an urgent meeting after the protesters started the 100-km
march towards Mumbai, said an aide of the assembly member.
Navin Dube, co-ordinator of the Shramjeevi Sanghatana - an
organisation founded by Pandit - said that the march was launched
Saturday dawn with over 5,000 people, including women.
“We marched eight km up to the Martyrs’ Memorial in Vasai when
Chief Minister Ashok Chavan called us for a meeting at his
official bungalow,” Dube told IANS.
The 100-km-long march, symbolically launched on the 141st birth
anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, from Vasai to Varsha (the chief
minister’s official residence at Malabar Hill in south Mumbai), is
part of the ongoing agitation against the inclusion of 18 villages
in the newly-formed Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) in
Thane district.
The march is the culmination of a unique week-long campaign in
which Pandit and his supporters “begged” Re.1 from people in
support of their demand.
“So far, we have collected over Rs.54,000 and we plan to donate it
to the chief minister after the march,” Dube said.
The money was collected by Pandit and others from railway stations
like Virar, Nalla Sopara, Vasai, Naigon, temples and other places
of worship, markets, bus stops and other public places in the
Vasai constituency.
Pandit said that for nearly two years the people have been
demanding the exclusion of 53 villages from the VVMC and the
Sanghatana has carried out several agitations.
In March this year, the agitation took a violent turn and police
caned the villagers and tribals, injuring several people including
women and senior citizens.
Later, the state government agreed to exclude 35 villages from the
VVMC, but there was no progress on the status of the remaining 18
villages in the corporation, which is based barely 40 km from
Mumbai.
The inclusion would be against the wishes of gram sabhas, Pandit
said.
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