{"id":458133,"date":"2023-03-23T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=458133"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:18:43","slug":"mahim-dargah-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/mahim-dargah-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai dargah bulldozed after Raj Thackeray&#8217;s encroachment claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dargah (shrine) in Mumbai Mahim area was bulldozed, Thursday, by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), day after MNS supremo Raj Thackeray alleged that the structure was constructed on encroached land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, an anti-encroachment team of the BMC escorted by a heavy deployment of the Mumbai Police, demolished the dargah with a bulldozer on Thursday morning and cleared away the debris in trucks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maharashtra | Demolition drive started at the encroached site of &#39;Dargah&#39; amid heavy police deployment at Mahim beach in Mumbai after MNS chief Raj Thackeray yesterday alleged that a Dargah is being built here illegally. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0yx2c2Wq2\">pic.twitter.com\/G0yx2c2Wq2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1638753711739609088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech on the occasion of Gudi Padwa yesterday, Raj Thackeray claimed that an &#8220;illegal dargah&#8221; had come up off the Mahim coast in Mumbai. Thackeray played a video clip captured by a drone while claiming that a new \u2018Haji Ali\u2019 was being constructed in the sea in Mahim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video played by Thackeray showed some green and white flags, fluttering on a pole and on strings around, with some men and women devotees\u2019 offering prayers at a makeshift grave of an unknown person, most likely an obscure Muslim sage from years past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/jaisalmer-bhagar-hospitalised\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/jaisalmer-bhagar-hospitalised\/\">50 hospitalized in Rajasthan\u2019s Jaisalmer after consuming millets during fast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"mr\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0938\u0902\u092a\u0942\u0930\u094d\u0923 \u0935\u094d\u0939\u093f\u0921\u0940\u0913 : \u0938\u0928\u094d\u092e\u093e. \u0930\u093e\u091c\u0938\u093e\u0939\u0947\u092c\u093e\u0902\u0928\u0940 \u0906\u091c \u090f\u0915 \u0905\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0902\u0924 \u092e\u0939\u0924\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0935\u093e\u091a\u0940 \u092c\u093e\u092c \u0938\u092e\u094b\u0930 \u0906\u0923\u0932\u0940&#8230; \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930\u091a\u0902\/\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0936\u093e\u0938\u0928\u093e\u091a\u0902 \u0926\u0941\u0930\u094d\u0932\u0915\u094d\u0937 \u091d\u093e\u0932\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0935\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u092f \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0902 \u0924\u0947 \u092a\u0939\u093e\u2026 \u092e\u093e\u0939\u0940\u092e\u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0917\u0926\u0942\u092e \u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e \u0926\u0930\u094d\u0917\u094d\u092f\u093e\u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0907\u0915\u0921\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0939\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0927\u093f\u0915\u0943\u0924 \u092c\u093e\u0902\u0927\u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0947\u0932\u0902. \u0968 \u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u093e\u0902\u092a\u0942\u0930\u094d\u0935\u0940 \u0939\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u0939\u0940\u091a \u0928\u0935\u094d\u0939\u0924\u0902. \u0907\u0925\u0947 \u0928\u0935\u0940\u0928 \u0939\u093e\u091c\u0940\u0905\u0932\u0940 \u0924\u092f\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0930\u0923\u0902 \u0938\u0941\u0930\u0941 \u0906\u0939\u0947.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BQ2CH1NmCb\">pic.twitter.com\/BQ2CH1NmCb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MNS Adhikrut &#8211; \u092e\u0928\u0938\u0947 \u0905\u0927\u093f\u0915\u0943\u0924 (@mnsadhikrut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnsadhikrut\/status\/1638593790129709066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thackeray also lashed out at the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government for alleged \u201cnegligence\u201d in cracking the whip on encroachers. He asked: &#8220;Whose dargah it is? Is it of a fish? It was not there a couple of years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thackeray also issued an ultimatum that if the \u201cillegal\u201d dargah wasn\u2019t immediately demolished then the MNS would begin building a massive Ganpati temple at the same place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president hinted at a potential security threat because of the dargah, saying that: \u201cThe Mahim police station is close by, the BMC officials keep moving around there\u2026 Yet since the past two years this dargah\u2019 is blatantly coming up in the sea\u2026 Another Haji Ali Dargah\u2019\u2026 And there\u2019s nobody to talk about it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thackeray had served an ultimatum to the Maharashtra government and civic bodies that his part will erect a Ganesh temple on the same isle if the \u201cillegal\u201d dargah was not razed to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/rahul-gandhi-modi-surname-case\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/rahul-gandhi-modi-surname-case\/\">Gujarat court convicts Rahul Gandhi in 2019 Modi surname defamation&nbsp;case<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/amritpal-singh-arrest\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/amritpal-singh-arrest\/\">Amritpal Singh changed 5 vehicles 12 hours during escape: Police<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dargah (shrine) in Mumbai Mahim area was bulldozed, Thursday, by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), day after MNS supremo Raj Thackeray alleged that the structure was constructed on encroached land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":458201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mumbai dargah bulldozed after Raj Thackeray's encroachment claims\n\n#RajThackeray\n#MNS\n#mahimdargah\n#mumbainews","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[130834,75158,114785,156546,2486,126749,599],"yst_prominent_words":[5299,15206,68200,14359,3849,3845,32488,3851,30250,4000,28754,32483,23310,3985,4133],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23120655\/mahim-dargah-mumbai.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458133"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=458133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=458133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->