There is no provision for the state government to either install or remove loudspeakers, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Monday after an all-party meeting on the issue.
The estranged Thackeray cousins -- Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray -- are going to walk together in a march for the cause of out-of-job textile mill workers in Mumbai. Several associations of textile industry workers, thousands of whom became jobless after prolonged strikes in early 1990s and afterwards, have organised a protest march on July 28 to press for their demands of rehabilitation.
The silence is specially deafening from three parties that symbolised hope for Muslims: The Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Samajwadi Party. 'What fear prevents these leaders from at least talking about the way our community is being targeted?' 'Will they really lose Hindu votes if they do so?'
PeeCee parites with her friends from the industry.
'The film industry will remain soft targets and continue to be picked upon with no respite, with no choice but to give in due to personal safety and financial compulsions,' says director Suparn Verma.
