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Potholes: After PWD protest in Navi Mumbai, MNS men train guns at Mantralaya

By TLM Last updated Jul 17, 2018

MNS men vandalise roads outside Mantralaya after PWD to protest against potholes

Workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) armed with shovels and other equipment, damaged the Madame Cama road in front of the state secretariat, Mantralaya in Mumbai, around midnight on 17 July, to protest rising incidents of pothole related deaths in the city.

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#Maharashtra: MNS workers break road in front of Mantralaya in Mumbai to protest against potholes in the city, late last night. pic.twitter.com/qvx3jsx7Rm
— ANI (@ANI) July 17, 2018

MNS workers decided to protest against the deplorable condition of city roads outside the Mantralaya. Shouting slogans and armed with tools, they soon began breaking the sidewalk outside the secretariate in a bid to garner attention. While one of the men waved the national flag, the remaining ten to twelve people repeatedly landed blows on the sidewalk and began throwing debris on the main road itself.

#WATCH MNS workers break road in front of Mantralaya in Mumbai to protest against potholes in the city, late last night. pic.twitter.com/IiSn7J8DFl
— ANI (@ANI) July 17, 2018

At senior police official told PTI that at least eight MNS workers were arrested in connection to the case.

Earlier on the same fateful day of 16 July, MNS workers vandalised the office of the Public Works Department (PWD) in Navi Mumbai over the same issue.

#WATCH: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers vandalise the office of Public Works Department in Navi Mumbai over incidents of pothole deaths in the state. #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/IT4qQpfMAW
— ANI (@ANI) July 16, 2018

The MNS, in a statement to Marathi daily had termed the attacks on the PWD office a ‘surgical strike’. The police, had arrested 8 office bearers in this case, the ANI report added.

#Maharashtra: Mumbai police has arrested 8 persons belonging to MNS undercharges of damaging public property and breaching prohibitory orders. They were seen damaging road in front of Mantralaya to protest against potholes in the city late last night.
— ANI (@ANI) July 17, 2018

The attacks came a day after Maharashtra PWD Minister Chandrakant Patil’s comments on 15 July that potholes could not be blamed for accidents.

Accidents on pothole-ridden roads claimed four lives in Kalyan area in the last two weeks. In all these cases, victims lost balance and fell when their vehicles hit a pothole, PTI reported.

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