Maharashtra reported 3,940 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the state tally to 18,92,707.
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MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said wearing masks will be mandatory for the next six months in the state.
Addressing people of the state on social media, Thackeray said experts are in favour of imposing night curfew or another lockdown, but he is not in favour of these steps.
The coronavirus situation in the state is under control, through not completely, he said. Prevention is better than cure. Wearing of mask at public places should be made a habit for another six months at least, Thackeray said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray addressed people of the state Sunday (File)
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Opposition asked state to give up ego on metro project
Mr Thackeray stopped car shed work at Aarey, shifted it to Kanjurmarg
Mumbai:
Infrastructure works undertaken in haste can lead to waste and not true development, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said Sunday, days after the BJP s Devendra Fadnavis demanded the Mr Thackeray and the Shiv Sena-led state government give up its ego and resume construction of the controversial metro car shed project at Mumbai s Aarey Colony.
Mr Thackery, whose administration halted building work at Aarey and shifted it to Kanjurmarg in October after a fierce protest by civil society and environmental activists, hit back at Mr Fadnavis and said that if wanting the best for Mumbai was arrogance then he admitted to the fault.
Maharashtra CM against night curfew, lockdown
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Uddhav says it will be compulsory for all citizens to wear masks for the next six months
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Uddhav says it will be compulsory for all citizens to wear masks for the next six months
While stating that he was not in favour of imposing a ‘night curfew’ to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said it would be compulsory for all citizens to wear masks for the next six months.
He said Maharashtra was yet to rid itself of the scourge of the COVID-19 contagion and there was a semblance of control over the pandemic since its eruption in the State in March this year.
Sonia Gandhi s letter to Uddhav Thackeray exposes rift among a section of party leaders
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi s letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking more attention and funds by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for disadvantaged sections is seen as a signal to Maratha leaders and state unit chief Balasaheb Thorat not to neglect such communities in the functioning of the party organisation and in governance.
Gandhi has also conveyed that the dominance of Maratha ministers and such leaders will not be tolerated as the Congress partyâs social agenda lays emphasis on the protection of the weaker sections of the society especially the dalit, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and other marginalised.
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