Sandeep Deshpande

The city crime branch on Tuesday arrested a person for the attack on MNS leader sandeep deshpande. Police said they picked up the third person, Vikas, from Bhandup.

MNS spokesperson and former corporator sandeep deshpande was attacked with cricket stump by unidentified people during morning walk at Dadar’s Shivaji Park on Friday.

The police were searching for two more persons in connection with the incident that took place on Friday when Deshpande was on morning walk near his residence in Dadar area, said an official.

Former BMC Mayor Kishori Pednekar, who was a Shiv Sena corporator, however, said mismanagement was evident in the way contingency funds were being used for beautification work.

Mayor Sunil Prabhu suspended five corporators from the opposition parties for indiscipline and not "following the decorum" of the BMC's general body on Tuesday.

The alleged harassment of a Sena woman corporator by a party MLA has once again reverberated through the BMC House.

The ruling party in the BMC, Shiv Sena, has asked the civic administration to take action against MNS corporator sandeep deshpande for installing wi-fi connections at Shivaji Park ground without permissions.

BJP national secretary Pankaja Munde has spoken out in support of a woman who was allegedly barred from a housing society for being Maharashtrian. Munde shared her own experience of facing discrimination as a Marathi while looking for accommodation in Mumbai. She expressed her distress at the division of people based on language and called for unity. MNS leader sandeep deshpande has asked Munde to disclose the name of the housing society, and BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar stated that Marathi people should be able to find housing in Mumbai. Cooperative law experts have called for legal action against the committee members responsible for refusing accommodation based on caste or community.

The MNS may not contest the Andheri East by-election as party chief Raj Thackeray avoids contesting bypolls necessitated due to the death of elected representatives, MNS spokesperson and general secretary sandeep deshpande said.

MNS group leader in the BMC sandeep deshpande met officers of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday with a complaint against mayor Snehal Ambekar in which he accused her of distributing funds under the influence of contractors.

Amid the controversy over BMC’s plan to construct a gravel-based ‘mud track’ in the middle of Dadar’s Shivaji Park, rainwater harvesting expert Nandan Mungekar, whom the corporation had consulted as a pro bono advisor, said that last year he had objected to red earth being laid on the parade

The Bombay HC on Thursday dismissed the party’s plea seeking use of Shivaji Park for a seven-day Marathi food festival.

In an attempt to break the syndicate of civil works contractors, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to seek an ethical declaration from bidders wherein they will have to give a written undertaking saying they don't have a stake in any of the rival companies vying for the same contract.

Political bigwigs who have offered to return plots with them, taken under the open spaces adoption policy, have only agreed to do so if the BMC pays them the expenses incurred in developing it.

The MNS has pulled out all the stops to turn Raj Thackeray's rally in Pune on Sunday into a virtual show of strength on the issue of the controversial road tax ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

A day after MNS workers vandalized the Congress office near Azad Maidan, party leader sandeep deshpande and seven others, who were arrested after the incident, were produced before the Esplanade court, which remanded them to police custody till Monday.

Officials of the BMC, which is led by the Shiv Sena, prevented Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers from holding a press conference at the civic headquarters on Thursday.

A day after MNS leader and former corporator sandeep deshpande was assaulted by four unidentified men at Shivaji Park on Friday morning, the crime branch on Saturday arrested two men from Bhandup in connection with the attack.

The MNS wants corporators to perform yoga and do suryanamaskar for five days a month along with civic school students. MNS corporator sandeep deshpande, who is the leader of the party in the BMC, has put up a notice of motion for the next general body meeting.

Amid demands from the BJP that a memorial for late singer Lata Mangeshkar be set up at Dadar’s Shivaji Park, environment minister Aaditya Thackeray has said a decision should be taken after a discussion with her family.

Railway stations continued to be largely free of hawkers on Tuesday as the BMC continued its drive against illegal vendors and the MNS kept up its threat of action, asking local wings to carry out “flag marches“ at the nearest stations.

The Shiv Sena has refused a request to cancel its booking of a playground in Dadar (W) so that the MNS can hold its last election rally there on Saturday evening.

MNS workers on Monday forced a woman CR staffer to apologize for declining information to a Mulund resident as he had submitted his RTI application in Marathi.

A note prepared by the municipal chief auditors department revealed that licence inspectors from G-north (Shivaji Park) and F-north (Sion, Matunga) have accepted cheques for renewal of licence for hoardings for 2010-11, but the cheques remained with the licence department without remittance in the municipal treasury.

As many as 132 students of a civic school in Dadar lost their school building as the BMC failed to pay the rent. The lower court had earlier directed the civic body to clear the dues.

Amid opposition from some corporators of the standing committee, the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP passed the Rs 621-crore proposal for resurfacing of asphalt and cement concrete roads in the island city.