Former autorickshaw driver becomes mayor of Pimpri-Chinchwad in Maharashtra
Will work for upliftment of poor
Mumbai, Aug 05: The story of an autorickshaw driver-turned-mayor, Rahul Jadhav is awe-inspiring. As he was struggling to make ends meet on a salary of Rs 200 ten years ago, life drastically changed in the span of a decade. On Saturday, he was declared the mayor of the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad at the PCMC headquarters in Maharashtra, as per a report by The Indian Express.
The 36-year-old Jadhav wore an attire similar to the one of social reformer Jyotiba Phule during his appointment as the mayor. Life posed new challenges everyday ever since he dropped out of Class 10 in school. “I know the pain of ordinary people like autorickshaw drivers. During my tenure as the mayor, I will work for the upliftment of the poor,” he was quoted as saying by IE.
For five long years, Jadhav drove a six-seater auto rickshaw from 1997 to 2002 in Chikhli, Bhosari and Moshi areas. After rejecting farming as an alternative, he shifted back to driving the autorickshaw to earn his daily living. Soon after, he joined the MNS in 2007. As fate turned quickly, he was elected to the PCMC on an MNS seat.
Earlier in the 2017 civic elections, he parted ways with MNS to join the BJP and was elected from the Jadhavwadi area by a small margin of 3,000 votes, as per the report. The other NCP nominee was way behind Jadhav after the PCMC elections where the mayor was chosen unanimously. Jadhav secured 80 votes while the NCP nominee Vinod Nadhe got 33 votes.
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena did not vote. Rahul Jadhav will serve one year as the mayor of the industrial city of Pimpri-Chinchwad. The deputy mayor Sachin Chinchwade who won with 79 votes was also a nominee from BJP. After Jadhav won, he headed to Jadhavwadi, Chikhli as supporters burst firecrackers.
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7 persons killed as car collides with trailer truck in Gujarat's Sabarkantha
Sabarkantha (Gujarat) (PTI): Seven men were killed and one was grievously injured when a speeding car rammed into a trailer truck on a highway near Himatnagar in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district early Wednesday morning, police said.
Due to the impact of the crash, the car was badly mangled and the bodies were retrieved after hectic efforts, they said. Rescue teams had to use a gas-cutter to remove the car scrap to pull out the bodies, an official said.
The accident occurred on a national highway connecting Udaipur (in Rajasthan) to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) at around 6.30 am, according to police.
"Seven car occupants were killed in the accident," Superintendent of Police Vijay Patel said.
"The car was carrying eight persons to Ahmedabad when it hit the trailer truck from behind while it was going ahead on the national highway," a Himatnagar police official said.
One passenger was grievously injured and rushed to a civil hospital for treatment, he said.
All the deceased were men, hailing from Ahmedabad. Their identities were being confirmed, the official said.
