Mumbai News Live Updates, January 4: Maharashtra Cabinet cleared the proposal to charge Rs 250 toll for a single trip on MTHL. The Urban Development Department had recommended Rs 350 for a single trip. However, fearing resentment from the commuters over exorbitant toll fee, the cabinet has decided to reduce it to Rs 250. MTHL is likely to open for the public on January 12.
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Meanwhile, Opposition NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad kicked off a row while addressing a crowd of party workers at the party’s study camp in Shirdi by saying “Lord Ram was a king of Bahujans and a non-vegetarian”. “We don’t read history and forget everything in politics. Ram is ours. Of us Bahujans. Who used to hunt to eat… Ram was never a vegetarian. He was a non-vegetarian. How can a man who lived in jungle for 14 years remain a vegetarian,” he asked.
A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that he is committed to the “liberation” of the centuries-old Haji Malang Dargah, Chandrahas Ketkar, one of the two trustees of the three-member trust of the dargah said that “anyone claiming that the dargah is a temple is doing it for political mileage”. “In 1954, the Supreme Court in a case related to control of the dargah within the Ketkar family had made observations stating that the dargah was a composite structure that cannot be governed either by Hindu or Muslim law, but only by its own special custom or by general law of trusts,” said Ketkar, whose family has been managing it for the past 14 generations.
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