The Maharashtra units of Shiv Sena and BJP on Thursday stoutly opposed the proposed public meeting by Hyderabad MP and MIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi in Nagpur on February 28 and demanded that the government cancel permission for the rally.
This will be Owaisi’s first public meeting in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region. He had earlier addressed rallies in Mumbai and Pune as his party AIMIM was trying to get a foothold in the State. Owaisi is scheduled to address the public at a ground in Asi Nagar area here for which permission was granted by the city police.
The MIM public meeting is being organised to strengthen the organisation in the city and the adjoining areas, MIM’s local unit spokesman Shakil Patel said. Meanwhile, a delegation of local Shiv Sena leaders, led by its city unit president Satish Harde, today met Joint Commissioner of Police and handed over a memorandum demanding cancellation of permission for the rally.
Local BJP MLA Vikas Kumbhare, in whose constituency the rally is scheduled to be held, has also demanded cancellation of permission for the meeting in a letter to the police. (NSS)