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Employees connected predetermination work casting their votes successful beforehand arsenic the voting started connected Monday. A presumption astatine Shivajinagar predetermination bureau connected Wednesday. (Express photograph by Arul Horizon)
A ample fig of companies from constabulary units from extracurricular Maharashtra person travel to Pune to augment the spot deployed for predetermination duties. The teams from these companies are deployed alongside the section constabulary teams.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to code an predetermination rally astatine SP College Ground successful Pune connected Tuesday evening, a radical of constables and officers from some Maharashtra constabulary and Chandigarh constabulary were waiting for their deployment orders for the rally and were lasting extracurricular the assemblage gate. The radical was having biscuits and tea.
“Guess what we are talking about. Salaries!” a Pune constabulary contable said. “We conscionable got to cognize that their (Chandigarh police) salaries are mode higher compared to america for the aforesaid ranks,” helium added. Pointing to the biscuits they were eating, the constable remarked, “See, they are eating cashew biscuits and we are eating humble glucose biscuits. I privation we could archer the PM to code the wage difference.”
“Where? In Chai pe charcha?” asked different bull from the radical arsenic the wireless sets crackled and deployment orders came. Well biscuits and chai are not specified a unusual combo, really.
Hear, hear
Union curate and RPI (A) person Ramdas Athawale connected Wednesday said that the disapproval by his confederation partners of Opposition enactment person NCP (SP) main Sharad Pawar of being casteist is incorrect arsenic helium ever practised societal equality.
“I person worked with him successful the past. He is not casteist and successful information ever practised societal equality. All governmental parties springiness candidature connected the ground of caste arsenic per the demography of constituency. The BJP besides believes successful societal equality portion Congress during their regularisation failed to region casteism. Everyone should enactment towards bringing societal equality successful the country,” Athawale said successful the city. Good to hear.
Where are the pinkish notes
Soon aft a state-level person finished his rally, a radical of women was seen approaching a pistillate with a notebook. Our colleague, funny astir the situation, tried to overhear — but astir were conscionable talking successful signs. An aged pistillate was seen asking for wealth and it transpired that they were promised wealth for attending the programme but were made to hold till the extremity of the speeches for payment. While luncheon was served galore said the agelong hold was not worthy the money.
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