Food plates strewn around the newly constructed knowledge resource centre on MU’s Kalina campus. Pic/Mumbai University student
The protesters shared photos and videos of liquor and water bottles strewn around, scattered plates, and leftover food apart from heaps of garbage dumped after the rally on Wednesday (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pradeep Sawant)
Thackeray made an hour-long speech at Shivaji Park ground, where his party has been holding the Dussehra rallies since its inception half a century ago, while Shinde addressed the crowd for an hour and a half at a bigger ground at BKC (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pradeep Sawant)
Students said that the scene was particularly bad outside the newly constructed knowledge resource centre (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pradeep Sawant)
Mumbai University students claimed that the plates were thrown outside the knowledge resource centre, with stray dogs feasting on the leftover food (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pramod Sawant)
“Several plots on the Kalina campus, including the helipad, were used to park vehicles arriving for the CM’s Dussehra rally on Wednesday. This has left a huge mess on the campus, with booze bottles everywhere and the stink of leftover food hanging in the air… Will the governor, who also serves as the state’s chancellor, and education minister take action against such irresponsible behaviour,” asked Yuva Sena’s Pradeep Sawant, a member of MU’s Senate (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pradeep Sawant)
Meanwhile, Yuva Sena, affiliated to the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena, claimed that even liquor bottles were lying around along with other trash (Pic/Mumbai University Student)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday accused each other of betrayal as the Shiv Sena groups headed by them held Dussehra rallies in Mumbai (Pic/Mumbai University student)
While Uddhav Thackeray branded Shinde and his supporters as traitors for teaming up with the BJP to wrest power, the latter said Thackeray had betrayed people of Maharashtra who voted for the Sena and BJP to form an alliance government, by teaming up with Congress and NCP after 2019 Assembly elections (Pic/Yuva Sena leader Pradeep Sawant)
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