Kasba Peth legislator Ravindra Dhangekar, who won the BJP bastion last year, held felicitation programmes and a lamp distribution event in the city ahead of the Ram Mandir ceremony in Ayodhya.
The BJP had won the Pune Lok Sabha seat both in 2014 and 2019 by a big margin. But the seat got vacated after the demise of sitting MP Girish Bapat in March this year.
PMC engineer Prashant Waghmare said the issue raised by agitators during Monday’s stir – against the ‘encroachment’ along Punyeshwar temple – is sub judice and it is wrong to blame civic staff for the same.