After the BJP-led Mahayuti stellar performance in the Maharashtra Assembly election, an old video of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is going viral on the internet.  

The viral video recorded after the BJP’s disappointing performance in the 2019 elections, showcased Fadnavis citing a Hindi Shayari, saying, “Mera paani utarta dekh mere kinare par ghar mat basa, main samandar hoon, lautkar vapas aaunga” (Don’t build a house on my shore after seeing my water receding. I am the ocean. I will come back).

This prophetic statement now resonates with his return as the leading face of the BJP, which has gained more than 130 seats alone in the state.

As the Mahayuti is set to form a government in the state, BJP workers and supporters were seen celebrating outside the party office in Mumbai.

In a post on X, Fadnavis, the former chief minister of Maharashtra, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modiji and BJP President JP Nadda for the victory in the state Assembly elections.

Earlier today, Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari hailed the BJP-led Mahayuti for the outstanding performance in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, saying the alliance prioritised development under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Shiv Sena (Shinde) chief and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde thanked the people of Maharashtra for the NDA’s landslide victory.

On Mahayuti’s CM face, Shinde said: “All I will say is let the final figures come. After that, all three parties (BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP) will sit, and discuss with seniors, and then a decision will be taken unanimously.”

The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is all set to retain power in the state and has crossed the majority mark, as per the Election Commission of India data. In the Mahayuti, BJP candidates were leading in more than 120 seats, Shiv Sena in 55 and NCP in 38 seats.

A mentally unwell man who was missing for over a decade was reunited with his family in Yavatmal in Maharashtra last week, an official said on Saturday.

According to an official, the 34-year-old man, a tribal, was working as a caterer in Bengaluru and lost his mental balance, after which he began roaming around aimlessly.

Speaking to the national news agency PTI, Ashok Kakade of Divya Seva Residential Rehabilitation Centre in Varvand said a missing person complaint was filed at Bengaluru police station at the time.

After one social worker, Sandeep Shinde spotted him in Latur, he was shifted to Divya Seva Residential Rehabilitation Centre in Varvand in Buldhana where he had been treated for the last 10 years, Kakade added.

Kakade said: “We named him Pushkar and after a long time, he started writing in Kannada on a board. An elderly woman who came to the centre recognised him and identified him as Arjun. She gave us more details, due to which we could verify his Aadhaar card and realised his family was in Yavatmal.”

On August 16, the residents of his native village held a welcome ceremony for him as he had returned after a decade, Kakade said. 

Reacting to the viral video of a Mumbai local train where a travelling ticket inspector (TTE) was physically assaulted by passengers on August 15, the CPRO Wester Railway Vineet Abhishek said those three persons who tried to create a disturbance had no connection with the three passengers caught with the first class tickets.

Speaking to ANI, the CPRO Abhishek said that a video went viral on social media of the incident that happened on  August 15 in which three passengers travelling in the AC local were caught with three first-class tickets. The ticket price of the AC local is more than the first-class tickets, he further said.

He added, “These passengers were told to pay the penalty by the ticket checker. Three persons tried to create a disturbance and these persons had no connection with the three passengers caught with the first class tickets.”

The Railway official said that they also misbehaved with the staff. After calling GRP and RPF the three persons issued a written apology, he added. “We request the passenger to travel with a valid ticket and should not misbehave with the railway staff”, he said.

In a viral video, the passengers’ unruly behavior on the Churchgate-Virar fast air-conditioned (AC) local train caused chaos and the heated argument turned into a physical altercation with a Railway TTE. The incident, which was recorded on video that went viral, highlights the challenges faced by ticket checkers while doing their duties in the crowded suburban trains in Mumbai.

Ticket inspector Singh was conducting a ticket check when he discovered three passengers traveling with first-class tickets in an air-conditioned local train. Singh asked the passengers to pay the fine in accordance with railway regulations. During this process, Aniket Bhosale, another passenger on the same train, began arguing with Singh. The situation escalated into a violent confrontation.

When the train reached Borivali, Singh requested Bhosale to disembark, but Bhosale refused. He reportedly abused Singh and physically assaulted him, tearing Singh’s shirt, due to this problem Singh lost Rs 1,500 that had been collected as fines from other passengers. Singh claimed that the train was halted at Borivali due to the altercation, preventing him from performing his duties.