The total positive cases stood at: 169 in Mumbai, 50 in Pune, 36 in Thane region, 25 in Sangli, Nagpur 16, Ahmednagar 8, Yavatmal 4, Buldhana 3, 2 each in Satara and Kolhapur, one each in Aurangabad, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Gondia, Jalgaon, Nashik, besides one from Gujarat.

On Tuesday, 72 new corona virus patients were found in Maharashtra, 59 of them in Mumbai. This was the largest increase in the number of cases within a day probably in the country, a state official said.

Meanwhile Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray appealed to people to remain indoors and maintain social distancing. “The ‘war against virus’ has reached a crucial stage and this is the time to exercise extreme precautions. Please do not step out of your homes for your own safety,” Thackeray said.

Salaries of ministers, other elected representatives as well as government officials in Maharashtra for March will be slashed by upto 60%, finance minister Ajit Pawar announced on Tuesday. Elected representatives including the chief minister, ministers and MLAs will get their salaries for March with 60% deduction. A and B grade government employees will get their salaries with 50% deduction while C grade employees will get salaries with 25% cut. There will be no cut in the salaries of D grade employees.

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NCP MP Udayanraje Bhosale joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of top saffron party leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, with Shah asserting that the BJP-led alliance will come back to power in the state with three-fourths majority. 

Bhosale, who draws his political influence due to his descendance from Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji”s family, said he agreed with the policies pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will work for Maharashtra as a BJP leader.

The Satara MP has quit his Lok Sabha membership to join the BJP. Shah said it was a matter of happiness for his party that a descendent of the Maratha king has joined it and asserted that Bhosale”s presence will help it in the upcoming assembly elections. 

The BJP, which had won 122 of the total 288 seats in the 2014 elections, will emerge stronger and its alliance will win three-fourths seats this time, he said. The Shiv Sena and a few smaller parties are part of the saffron alliance in the state.

The Fadnavis government has worked for the state”s all-round development and “restored” its pride in its five-year rule, Shah added. Shah said the BJP and its alliance will receive even bigger support in the Assembly polls after it had decimated the Congress-NCP alliance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

On the occasion, Fadnavis also voiced his party”s happiness at Bhosale”s decision to join it.  He noted that Bhosale had lauded the Modi government”s move to nullify Article 370, which given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The decision to hold the bypoll was taken after the Bombay High Court decided on an election petition on Satara Lok Sabha elections. The order reached the Commission on September 23.

The bypoll was necessitated after Member of Parliament (MP) from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),  Udayanraje Bhosale, recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after resigning from Lok Sabha. Counting of votes will happen on October 24 when the Assembly election votes are counted.

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A large number of people across the state attended Ganpati visarjan procession in their respective towns on Thursday amid tight security. Thursday marked the end of the 10-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival, celebrated in Maharashtra with full fervour. 

However, the celebrations at various places were marred by incidents like these.Four people died in Amravati, followed by three in Ratnagiri, two each in Nashik, Sindhudurg and Satara and one each in Thane, Dhule, Buldhana and Bhandara. 

In a similar incident, 11 people have died after a boat capsized during Ganpati Visarjan at Bhopal’s Khatlapura Ghat on Friday morning. 

Police along with the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) people and a team of divers are carrying out the rescue operations. 

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has directed a magisterial inquiry into the incident and announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to families of deceased.

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