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  श्रीरामपूरला सोमैया हायस्कूलमध्ये आठवीनववीत शिकत असताना रविंद्र धुप्पड हा माझा अगदी जवळचा मित्र होता. आम्हा दोघांत काहीही समान धागे नसताना आम्ही दोघे इतके जवळचे मित्र कसे बनलो याचे आज या क्षणाला आठवत नाही, मात्र त्याबद्दल आश्चर्य नक्कीच वाटते. मी आमच्या शाळेजवळ राहणारा तर धुप्पड संगमनेर रोडवर चौगुले इमारतीत दुसऱ्या मजल्यावर राहणारा. त्याच्यामुळे मी आयुष्यात पहिल्यांदा इमारतीत फ्लॅट कसा असतो हे पाहिले. निळ्या रंगाचा लँडलाईन फोनसुद्धा पहिल्यांदा मी धुप्पडच्या घरात पाहिला, त्या फोनची रिंगटोन ऐकली. पुढचे आणि मागचे असे दोन दारे असलेल्या आमच्या घरात धुप्पडचा इथून तिथे सगळीकडे वावर असायचा. आमच्या घरातील सर्वांशी म्हणजे दादांशी, बाईशी, सगळ्या भाऊ बहिणी आणि वहिनी यांच्याशी त्याचा मराठीत चांगला संवाद असायचा. आमच्या स्वयंपाकघरात लाकडी भूशाच्या शेगडीवरच्या पातेल्यांत काय शिजते आहे याचीही त्याला पूर्ण कल्पना असायची, पण आमच्या संबंधात त्यामुळे काही बाधा आली नाही. माझा सर्वांत थोरला भाऊ फ्रान्सिस धुप्पडला त्याच्या घरच्या नावाने `किले' म्हणूनच हाक मारायचा. शाळेतल्या इतर मित्रांप्रमाणे आम्ह...

Shiv Sena Sainik Marshal John Parkhe with Balasaheb Thackeray It was around 1975 that slogans like Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji were heard in our house in Shrirampur. Influenced by one of his school teachers, Marshal, my elder brother, had started playing Lazim with and Dhol Tasha and this had introduced him to Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. I was then still studying in a secondary school. I watched Marshal leaving house early morning to sweat it out at the local municipal council’s gymnasium. There, wearing a Langot, he wrestled with others on the red soil, climbed and did many startling stunts on the Mallakhamb. After coming home, he ate the Chana dal which was soaked in water the previous night. This was all the luxury diet and nutrients he could afford after working it out hard at the gym in the morning and the lazim playing with his friends on the grounds in the evening. In June 1976, I had left my family almost for good to join the Jesuits, to be a religious priest. A couple of...

No party willing to take gamble of mid-term polls in the State Camil Parkhe Wednesday, 21 June 2017    goo.gl/kyedu9 The moot question is that can any of the warring factions of the ruling alliance or the opposition parties afford the gamble of mid-term polls or at any stage in the near future The BJP-led State government has just completed half of its five-year term and there is talk of the possibility of mid-term polls. Unlike in the past, the debate is not about the creation of any of the opposition parties but the major partners in the alliance government – the BJP and the Shiv Sena.  Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said his party was confident of returning to power if mid-term polls were held in the state anytime. This led to Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan jumping into the fray to claim that their parties too were...

Lone Christian member in Pune Municipal Corporation is from MIM CAMIL PARKHE |  Monday, 13 March 2017 AT 12:51 PM IST       All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen ,  political party ,  Muslim community ,  Christian candidate ,  PMC election , MIM ,  Ashwini Landge ,  christian community ,  Pune ,  Camil Parkhe    goo.gl/GLVU3f PUNE:  The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, otherwise referred to as a political party representing only the Muslim community, has provided the only Christian member in the newly elected Pune Municipal Corporation. Ashwini Daniel Landge, a MIM nominee, was elected a member of the Pune Municipal Corporation from the open woman category in panel number six from Yerwada.  Incidentally Landge is also the MIM's only member in the 162-member House. The MIM had contested altogether 25 seats in the city. The party had hoped to win a few seats in Muslim-dominated Kondhwa...

The fall and fall of the Congress in Pune Municipal Corporation CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 5 March 2017 AT 10:38 AM IST       CAMIL PARKHE ,  PMC ,  Pune Municipal Corporation ,  Congress Bhavan ,  Nationalist Congress Party ,  Pune The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) headquarters located in Shivajinagar are separated only by a small lane. It was only incidental that the Congress ruled the Pune Municipal Corporation during the post-independent period for decades until its splinter group, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), took over the reigns a decade ago. The two neighbours i.e. The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation had close ties besides their physical proximity. With the Bharatiya Janata Party storming into the Congress-NCP stronghold, the decades-old rule of the Congress in the civic body has come to an end. In the 162-member House, now, the BJP has 98 members, while the Congr...

Don’t just seek votes, also accommodate minorities in State ministry CAMIL PARKHE |  Monday, 16 January 2017 AT 09:18 AM IST            goo.gl/m8aYwH blog ,  BJP ,  chief minister ,  Devendra Fadnavis ,  Azam Pansare ,  PCMC ,  civic polls ,  vote ,  municipal corporation election ,  Camil Parkhe ,  Sakal Times            With the induction of Azam Pansare, Pimpri Chinchwad’s former mayor and Nationalist Congress Party’s local Muslim veteran, the Bharatiya Janata Party has received a big boost as it prepares to face the mini elections in the State next month. With the welcoming of Pansare into the party, the ruling party at the Centre and State, the BJP has clearly indicated its intension to shed off its ‘saffron’ tag in order to woo the minority votes. In Pansare, the BJP has got its much-needed Muslim face in the State. Pansare, a strong supporter of NCP ...

Congress satrap Balasaheb Vikhe leaves behind rich legacy CAMIL PARKHE |  Saturday, 31 December 2016 AT 06:03 PM IST            goo.gl/1olCtO  Balasaheb Vikhe Patil  ,  death ,  Congress ,  Ahmednagar ,  profile , Sakal Times   Eknath Vitthalrao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil who died on Friday was a veteran Congressman who steadfastly maintained his fiefdom in Maharashtra and in his Ahmednagar home district for a stretch of over four decades. The change of political tides in the state or the country did not wither away his influence and clout as he skillfully managed to ride over these changes to his own advantages. A seven terms Lok Sabha member from Ahmednagar district, he was one of the senior most members of the lower house of Parliament. He was part of the young, new faces chosen by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1970s after she had succeeded in defying the Congress party's old guards. But wh...

Political interference in profession, eating habits dangerous goo.gl/C8nX87     Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 28 August 2016 AT 09:39 AM IST Sakal Times One of the first major policy decisions implemented by the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance soon after forming the government in 2014 was to exhume the 19-year-old pending bill on the ban on the slaughter of cow and her progeny and secure the President’s approval for it. Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, who along with other BJP leaders had followed the Bill to its logical end, had then claimed that there is nothing communal about the ban. Soon after this bill became a law, there was a spurt in violent incidents related to the alleged eating or possession of beef in the country. The dubious credit for bringing the cow or beef issue at the Centre of nationwide controversy, therefore, should go to the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra. Subsequently, tension over the issue of cattle slaughter or be...

Civic poll results exposing BJP’s weakness in rural Maharashtra Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Thursday, 21 April 2016 AT 03:03 PM IST       blog ,  civic poll ,  poll result ,  BJP ,  Nagar panchayats ,  Zilla Parishad ,  Panchayat samitis ,  Maharashtra , Camil Parkhe In the recently concluded elections to the newly formed local self government civic bodies (Nagar Panchayats) in Maharashtra, the Congress has emerged as the leading party, the NCP and Shiv Sena have won equal seats while BJP was relegated to the last- fourth place. The number of the Nagar Panchayats in the state which went to the polls was very minuscule, only six and there were also bypolls to a few municipal corporations, Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis. Nonetheless, the poll verdict needs to be taken seriously by all political parties in the state as they are indication of the people’s opinion about these parties. The six Nagar Panchayats...