Aaditya Thackeray has questioned the Gokhale Bridge work. (PTI File/X)
Based on Aaditya Thackeray, the Gokhale bridge is the right instance of a “nexus” between politicians, authorities officers and contractors. Dealing with flak from all quarters, the BMC has stated the rectification work may take a 12 months
Aaditya Thackeray, former cupboard minister and chief of the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT), has written to Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais, demanding the suspension of Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) chief Iqbal Singh Chahal and railway officers accountable for development of the misaligned Gokhale Bridge in Mumbai’s Andheri.
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Though the BMC has partially opened the Gokhale Bridge, the problem of visitors has not been resolved, as couldn’t be linked to the Barfiwala bridge owing to totally different alignments. Dealing with flak from all quarters, the BMC has stated the rectification work may take a 12 months. This, nonetheless, will, in flip, add to the troubles of motorists, forcing them to manoevre via the already crowded SV Street. The BMC has additionally roped in consultants of the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) to determine the plan of action.
राज्यपाल महोदयांना माझे पत्र…मुंबई महानगरपालिकेच्या आयुक्तांचे निलंबन आणि गोखले पुलाच्या पुनर्बांधणीत झालेल्या लाजिरवाण्या प्रकरणाच्या चौकशीसाठी मी माननीय राज्यपाल श्री. रमेश बैस ह्यांच्याकडे पत्राद्वारे निष्पक्ष चौकशीची मागणी केली.
My letter to the hon’ble governor, looking for… pic.twitter.com/2ix2QL3ACS
— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) March 8, 2024
“The reconstructed Gokhale Bridge has develop into a problem of disgrace, the information of the failure of the authorities who have been accountable for reconstructing it has unfold in all the nation and each BMC and India railways authority are taking part in the blame sport, therefore I request you to droop the BMC Chief and competent railway officers who got the accountability to reconstruct this bridge. In order that they gained’t have the ability to intrude additional on this situation and will face the music for enjoying with cash of the general public.”
Based on Thackeray, the Gokhale bridge is the right instance of a “nexus” between politicians, authorities officers and contractors. “The native MLA visited the bridge website many occasions together with the officers involved. However in these visits, they couldn’t discover the flaw within the development of the bridge. Or was it completed to create a ‘flaw’ in order that the opposite adjoining bridge could possibly be demolished and a brand new tender could possibly be floated,” requested Thackeray.
In the identical letter, Thackeray additionally raised the problem that regardless of the Election Fee’s order to switch Chahal from his present submit, no motion has been taken to this point by the state. “That is clear defiance of the order of Election Fee and likewise reveals how a lot this unconstitutional state authorities is taking Election Fee with no consideration,” he wrote.
