OFF THE RECORD review on some of todays headlines…
1. What is happening at MTDC?
Apparently all is not well between Cabinet Minister for tourism Jaykumar Raval & MD-MTDC IAS officer Vijay Waghmare...Recently a meeting for upcoming Ganpati festival was called by the Minster in his chamber at Mantralaya wherein senior officers from the BMC including newly appointed Additional Municipal Commissioner Aabasaheb Jarhad were presented…Principal Secretary IAS Nitin Gadre & JT MD MTDC Ashutosh Rathod were present along with the Minister & its staff…The quorum was being taken–it was then that the Principal Secretary Nitin GAdre asked about the absence of MD Vijay Waghmare…the Minister smiled & chose not to answer..but don’t know what happened 10 minutes into the meeting the Minster himself announced that the MD was not called for a reason which he chose not to disclose…But OFF THE RECORD, it is heard that it was Vijay Waghmare who had given Media breaking news of Jaykumar Ravals travel to Germany with a whopping Rs. 2 crore expense… even when it was not required for him to be there…15 days ago everyone had reported that…this had miffed Raval to no extend…it is said that the Minister is so dam adamant on removing Vijay Waghmare from the post, that he is even ready to plead for the same in front of CM…
2. Radheshyam Mopalwar under scanner
First Vishwas Patil, now Radheshyam Mopalwar…Wow, has the count started? Not against anything but totally believe in calling a spade a spade here…Read todays The Hindu…a report from PMO had already been sent in last December in regards to inquiry to be conducted against Mopalwar for corruption & other related matters…but the GAD & CMO rejected the same and ignored it. Now again I’m telling you all, along with Mopalwar one more person’s name is indicted in the report which everyone has conveniently forgotten…Allegedly it is our very own Mr. Foreigner in the CMO...the matter raised in the last week in the VidhanSabha in regard to the Piyush Bongirwar “Saheb” is just the tip of the iceberg…Wait for few days more…the role of Bongirwar & Mr. Foreigner along with many IAS officers and deputy collectors will be exposed in the Mumbai-Nagpur Highway corridor expose…How much ever people protect these bureaucrats here, the PMO is after them…see it was someone in the PMO who was responsible for leaking the taped conversation of Mopalwar…it was leaked when even they were convinced, that the CMO is not taking any action and ignoring their demand of probing…
3. Minister Prakash Mehta under scanner
He surely must be sacked! Leaving aside his atrocious looks and typical that “I know everything” type of Gujrati attitude, I never liked Prakash Mehta’s work or his style of operating.. It was me who had initially exposed his addas (Hotel Intercontinental-Nariman Point) allegedly it was here where he conducted “business” when he was inducted in the cabinet in 2014…One more proof of how Mehta does not know to keep promise, I remember at a prayer meeting held for Late R. R Patil, Mehta who was an ordinary MLA then, came on stage and in front of 1000’s of NCP supporters which included Pawars & the Patel’s too, Mehta made a speech and swore by the dead body of R R Patil that he will never consume the pan-masala which was a major contributor for RR’s death…Well, it was not even 24 hours, Mehta broke his promise…Secondly if my sources are to be believed it was Mehta who “brokered” the deal between a senior Cabinet Minister from Vidharbha and an IAS officer, Thane region got it’s new Collector…
Vikrant Hemant Joshi
