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Indu mill: 5 ruling combine MLAs suspended
Five MLAs of the ruling Congress-NCP alliance were on Monday suspended from the Maharashtra Assembly for a day for creating a ruckus on the issue of allotting Indu Mill land for constructing a memorial for Dalit icon B R Ambedkar.
Nagpur: Five MLAs of the ruling Congress-NCP
alliance were on Monday suspended from the Maharashtra Assembly
for a day for creating a ruckus on the issue of allotting Indu
Mill land for constructing a memorial for Dalit icon B R
Ambedkar.
The suspended MLAs are Chandrakant Handore and Prashant Thakur (both Congress), Nawab Malik, Jeetendra Awhad and Shashikant Shinde, all from NCP.
Various political parties have been demanding that the mill land in Central Mumbai be allotted for constructing a memorial for Ambedkar. This is the first time that the ruling alliance members have vociferously raised the issue.
The MLAs were suspended after they shouted slogans and waved banners, demanding that the Government hand over the Indu mill land to them for building the memorial. On December 6, the activists of the `Republican Sena`, led by its leader Anandraj Ambedkar, stormed into the mill premises and installed the busts of Ambekar and Gautam Buddha.
It was followed by another violent agitation outside the mill premises last week where supporters of RPI leader Ramdas Athavale staged a demonstration over the issue.
PTI
The suspended MLAs are Chandrakant Handore and Prashant Thakur (both Congress), Nawab Malik, Jeetendra Awhad and Shashikant Shinde, all from NCP.
Various political parties have been demanding that the mill land in Central Mumbai be allotted for constructing a memorial for Ambedkar. This is the first time that the ruling alliance members have vociferously raised the issue.
The MLAs were suspended after they shouted slogans and waved banners, demanding that the Government hand over the Indu mill land to them for building the memorial. On December 6, the activists of the `Republican Sena`, led by its leader Anandraj Ambedkar, stormed into the mill premises and installed the busts of Ambekar and Gautam Buddha.
It was followed by another violent agitation outside the mill premises last week where supporters of RPI leader Ramdas Athavale staged a demonstration over the issue.
PTI