This story is from June 12, 2021

Thane neta-babu spar, seek Maharashtra CM's intervention

IAS official Sanjeev Jaiswal, a former municipal commissioner, has written to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking action against Sanjay Ghadigaonkar, a former Congress politician, accusing him of vendetta politics, continuous harassment and trying to physically harm him.
Thane neta-babu spar, seek Maharashtra CM's intervention
IAS official Sanjeev Jaiswal
THANE: Senior IAS official and former Thane municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal has written to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking action against Sanjay Ghadigaonkar , a former Congress neta, accusing him of vendetta politics and continuous harassment and also trying to physically harm him.
The letter comes days after former corporator Ghadigaonkar had independently written to Thackeray seeking a detailed probe in all projects and functioning of the corporation during Jaiswal’s tenure.

The submission of letters has once again exposed the simmering hostility between Jaiswal and few local netas even after a year and half of the bureaucrat exiting Thane to assume greater responsibilities in the Mumbai corporation and his subsequent transfer to the fisheries department.
In his letter to Thackeray, the bureaucrat who is noted to have helped transform the cityscape during his five year tenure, has accused Ghadigaonkar of deliberately harassing him after he was disqualified and later barred from contesting polls for submitting fake caste validation certificates during civic polls. He also accused the neta of ‘supporting’ illegal constructions in the city and also misusing the RTI.
“Ever since Ghadigaonkar lost his seat, he has been harassing me. The harassment continued with even after I left Thane last year. He sent a letter to the CM following which I have also sent my official complaint laying bare few wrongdoings by few politicians in Thane city. I now fear for my life and have accordingly approached the CM who is aware of my works done in Thane,” Jaiswal told TOI.
Meanwhile, Ghadigaonkar, who had switched loyalties to the BJP and later returned to Congress, maintained there have been several irregularities in functioning of the corporation during the tenure of Jaiswal.

“I have sought a probe in all the projects sanctioned and also in the mushrooming of illegal constructions during the period. The administration, police and certain netas were in cahoots and fully exploited the situation,” he told the media.
It may be noted another corporator formerly with the Congress and presently with the BJP, Narayan Pawar, has alleged several crucial files from the town development office were being stealthily taken out of the corporation in connivance of few builders and civic officials and sought a probe.
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