Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Sunday urged the Center to make adequate provisions for immediate deployment of central security forces to ensure the safety of the rebel MLAs and their families in the event of a situation. In a letter to Union Home Secretary AK Bhalla, Koshyari said that he had received representations on Saturday (June 25) from 38 MLAs of Shiv Sena, 2 of Prahar Janshakti Party and 7 Independents that their families have been given police protection. illegally and illegally withdrawn’. He said that the MLAs presently present in Guwahati have expressed serious concern about the safety of their homes and families in the context of “provocative and threatening statements” being made by some political leaders.
The Governor said that he has already directed the state police to provide adequate security to the MLAs, their families and homes on priority basis.
“Despite this, offices and homes of some MLAs have been vandalized and the police remain mute spectators,” Koshyari told Bhalla.
He also urged the central authority to make adequate provisions for the central security forces, to keep them ready if necessary to deal with the situation.
The governor’s letter comes in the backdrop of violent incidents in Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Satara, Beed, Parbhani and Nagpur by alleged political activists who staged demonstrations, stone pelting, attacks on offices, torches, etc. effigies, pictures of beatings or posters of rebels with ‘slippers’ etc.
They were protesting against the turncoat MLAs for the past few days and today counter-protests were held in different parts of the state by the supporters of some of the targeted MLAs.
Responding to a letter written by rebel group leader Minister Eknath Shinde to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday, state Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil categorically denied that the security of any MLA has been withdrawn and the police They have also been asked to provide security to their families.