SpeakAsia Online ScamMNS leader announces Rs 50 lakh for `dahi handi” organisers
Raj Thackeray News: To highlight the menace of `dahi handi’ organisers playing with lives of youngsters by increasing height of pyramids, a senior leader of the Raj Thackeray-led MNS has announced Rs 50 lakh for the organiser who breaks the handi.
“Why do you want children of others to lose life or limb after you place the `handi’ so high that it is impossible to break it.
If the organisers, who are mostly politicians, break it, I will give them Rs 50 lakh,” MNS MLA Bala Nandgaonkar told PTI here today.
Several members of Govinda teams across the city go from one dahi handi to another on Gokulashtmi which is on September 2, to vie for the prizes, which range from a few thousand rupees to Rs 25 lakh.
In the last few years, half a dozen Govindas have lost their lives and several others have sustained serious injuries, Nandgaonkar said. The government should ensure that the height of these pyramids is restricted to a manageable eight layers, instead of the 10 which many organisers do, he said.
“Will the government give compensation to families who lose a member in dahi handi mishap,” the MNS leader said. In 2008, the Mazgaon-Tadwadi Ganesh Mandal, the oldest in the city, broke the dahi handi at Thane by forming a nine-layer pyramid.
In the last few years, half a dozen Govindas have lost their lives and several others have sustained serious injuries, Nandgaonkar said. The government should ensure that the height of these pyramids is restricted to a manageable eight layers, instead of the 10 which many organisers do, he said.
“Will the government give compensation to families who lose a member in dahi handi mishap,” the MNS leader said. In 2008, the Mazgaon-Tadwadi Ganesh Mandal, the oldest in the city, broke the dahi handi at Thane by forming a nine-layer pyramid.
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