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PMC’s rich legacy of sending leaders to state, national levels vanishing CAMIL PARKHE |  Saturday, 11 February 2017 AT 06:52 PM IST       CAMIL PARKHE ,  PMC leaders ,  national level ,  missing Since its inception in 1857, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sent many of its members at State and national levels to lead in various sectors including politics, social works and even in the film industry. One of the oldest civic bodies in the country, the PMC has provided state and national level political leaders, philosophers, social reformers, litterateurs, playwrights and also acclaimed civil engineers. Mahatma Jyotiba Phule - after whom the vegetable market in the city is named - was a member of the PMC. In fact, as a member of the civic body, Phule had opposed the proposal for construction of a central market in the city and demanded that the same funds should be used for providing education to poor children. The market, i...

From MGP bastion to BJP ruled state, where is Goa headed now? CAMIL PARKHE |  Tuesday, 31 January 2017 AT 09:16 PM IST          goo.gl/wn5zWN    Goa ,  assembly polls ,  political scenario Goa is the only territory in the country where a referendum was conducted to decide its fate; to exit an an independent entity or to merge into the neighbouring Maharashtra as one of its districts. The referendum was held soon after the liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu from the foreign Portuguese rule in 1961. Besides the referendum, there are many some other characteristics and features which makes this smallest state in the country, a unique territory. During the first two decades after Goa’s liberation, the politics in the erstwhile Union Territory was dominated by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) having support among mainly the Hindus and the United Goans Party which had strong base among the Catholics and the upper caste...

Church has an unenviable role to play in Goa polls CAMIL PARKHE |  Tuesday, 24 January 2017 AT 12:56 PM IST          goo.gl/U8KSVY Goa ,  assembly polls ,  catholic Church ,  role , As the campaign for the Goa State assembly has picked up, the role of the Catholic Church in the politics of the tiny coastal state is being debated once again. The Catholics in Goa are an important constituent in deciding the poll fortunes in many assembly seats and the Church can directly or indirectly influence the pattern of voting in the polls. That is the reason all the political parties in Goa have been keeping a close watch on the signals sent out from the Bishop’s Palace located at Altinho in Panaji. It is a fact that the Church in India has always reiterated that it is a apolitical institution and that the faithful are always free to vote for or contest on behalf of any political party. The Church in Goa is also not an exception to th...

New papal envoy for India CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 22 January 2017 AT 03:49 PM IST         goo.gl/sEG2PG appointment ,  Papal envoy ,  India ,  christianity ,  archbishop Giambattista Diquattro ,  Apostolic Nuncio Pune:  Pope Francis has appointed Italian archbishop Giambattista Diquattro as the Apostolic Nuncio, Vatican's new envoy to India and Nepal. The formal announcement was made made in Vatican on Saturday evening.  The news was conveyed to the Catholic church hierarchy in India by Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas (SFX), secretary general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. The 62-year-old archbishop Diquattro will replace Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio who was transferred to Poland as Apostolic Nuncio in August last year. Archbishop Diquattro was earlier the Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia.  He had joined the Holy See's diplomatic service in 1985 and later served at missions in the pontifical r...

Christians to urge political parties for representation CAMIL PARKHE |  Thursday, 19 January 2017 AT 11:49 PM IST       Christian community ,  Pune Christian community Pune: A meeting of leaders of the Christian community from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad held here on Thursday has decided to urge various political parties to provide representation to their community members in the forthcoming civic polls in the two cities. Presently, not a single member of the Christian community is a member of the present houses in Pune or Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations. The meeting of Christian leaders, belonging to various political parties and social activists, was held at St Patrick’s Cathedral. Pune Bishop Thomas Dabre presided over the meeting. It was attended by Pramod Pardhe from Vadgaonsheri, Samuel Negal, Rajan Nair, Mozes Kolkati, Ashish James, Chitralekha James, Anupama Dongre-Joshi and Mary Cruz. The leaders decided to approach political part...

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...