Following speculation that the BMC had geared up to pull down the structure where Bal Thackeray was cremated on November 18, which the Sena turned into a temporary 'memorial' , hundreds of Sainiks from the party's Thane wing reached the park on Saturday. But even as three Thane MLAs, Eknath Shinde, Pratap Sarnaik and Rajan Vichare, along with the Sainiks arrived to protest any action on the temporary 'memorial' , Mumbai Police moved to cordon off the entire ground. Sources said police commissioner Satyapal Singh was planning to remove the structure by Sunday. Besides 3,000 policemen , personnel from the State Reserve Police Force, Rapid Action Force and riot control unit were deployed near the ground.
If a senior BMC bureaucrat is to be believed, then instructions have been given to the field staff to remove the temporary structure as early as possible . "We have given our plan to the law enforcing agencies, the moment adequate police force is deployed at Shivaji Park we will remove the temporary structure,'' he said.
The BMC had issued notices to mayor Sunil Prabhu and Sena MP Sanjay Raut, asking them to vacate the park immediately and remove the structure as permission to set up the stage was only given for one day. However, the Sena has been defiant and has not even replied to the notice.
A Sena leader warned the party won't allow removal of the 'memorial' until the government grants an alternate site. "Once this is done we will remove it on our own. The government should not remove or it may irk Sainiks and disturb peace and harmony all over the state," he warned. Sainiks even put up hoardings on Saturday daring the BMC to remove the structure while women Sainiks formed an innermost circle around the structure. "We will stay here and guard the site. This is where Balasaheb Thackeray's funeral was conducted, the site is precious to us," said Shinde.
That Sena CEO Uddhav Thackeray chose the party's Thane unit to raise the decibel level on the memorial issue is significant. "The Sena's Thane unit is seen as well-knit and cohesive," a senior Sena functionary said. Matoshree has more reason to trust the Thane Sainiks' spunk. It was the Thane wing which went on a rampage on the death of Sena leader Anand Dighe in 2001. The Thane Sainiks also built a permanent memorial to Dighe close to a playground near the Thane police commissioner's office, all of which prompted Matoshree to assign the task of protecting the Shivaji Park structure to Eknath Shinde, a protege of Dighe.
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