Stop migration: minister Kore hints at a tie-up with MNS

“The JSS will support a government that will ban more people from coming to the city,” said Kore,claiming that the next government would not be formed without JSS support.

Replying to questions on any possibility of a tie-up with the MNS,Kore said a discussion with MNS chief Raj Thackeray was likely in the next seven to eight days.

In return for JSS support in Mumbai South,the MNS had supported JSS candidates in Nanded and Latur in the Lok Sabha polls.

The JSS now has four MLAs in the Assembly including Kore who represents Panhala constituency in Kolhapur. Kore said his party plans to field 50 candidates for the Assembly polls,including around 10 from Mumbai. Mumbai and adjoining areas like Thane and Navi Mumbai have a substantial number of people from Kolhapur and Western Maharashtra.

Kore also criticised the state government’s move to legalise slums that have come up till the year 2000 and added that allowing more people to settle in Mumbai would create problems for those already residing here.

Kore alleged that the state government was being cheated by mill owners and developers who were giving a share of mill land that was due to the government in suburbs like Goregaon and the Vasai-Virar belt instead of the mill district of central Mumbai. He said the party would take a stand against it.

MNS general secretary,wife join Shiv Sena
In a jolt to the MNS,party general secretary Sanjay Ghadi quit the party along with his wife Sanjana,who is the MNS vice-president to join the Shiv Sena. MNS leaders Raja Chougule,Digambar Kandarkar,Prakash Mahajan and Shweta Parulkar,had quit the party to join the Sena recently. Ghadi,who met Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday evening,criticised the MNS style of functioning and attributed his decision to being sidelined in the party.