NCP event: Pune cops book organizers for ... PG 04 << VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 266 MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2021, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com MAHA VIKAS AGHADI ALLIANCES SLOGANS OF GOING IT ALONE IN 2024 Dr. Vaidehi Taman MVA and formed the state time as Patole lost the 2019 Lok Congress president Nana Maharashtra government if afternoon_voice government, with Uddhav Sabha election on a Congress Patole maintained that the anyone speaks against its Thackeray becoming chief ticket to Nitin Gadkari, he got Congress will not enter into leadership. In the last few months, minister. elected to the Maharashtra alliances with either the NCP or multiple Congress leaders he Next Maharashtra Since then, Uddhav Thackeray Assembly from Sakoli in the Shiv Sena. They have to including Balasaheb Thorat have Legislative assembly might have been proven to be a Bhandara district. In other expand the party base by expressed their concerns over Telection is scheduled to good Chief Minister but Aghadi appointments to Maharashtra contesting all seats in all their party being neglected in the be held in or before October 2024 has a lot of internal issues. Congress, 6 working presidents elections.” coalition government. In May to elect all 288 members of the Indicating unease within the and 10 vice presidents have been In a virtual address on the 2020, former Congress president state's Legislative Assembly. MVA, Maharashtra Congress named. occasion of Sena’s 55th Rahul Gandhi had publicly stated Uddhav Thackeray is expected to president Nana Patole revealed Answering the Congress’s foundation day, Thackeray said: that Congress was not the key be the incumbent Chief Minister that he had been given the task of desire to go alone, Chief Minister “Even we can give the slogan of decision-maker in Maharashtra. at the time of the election. The helping his party emerge as Uddhav Thackeray said that going solo. It is our birth right. Recently, Congress has locked previous Assembly elections number one in the state. After “Shiv Sena can also give a slogan But this is not the right time. At a horns with Shiv Sena over its were held in October 2019. The winning only 44 seats in the 2019 of going it alone in future time when the pandemic remains suggestion that Sharad Pawar Bharatiya Janata Party led Maharashtra Assembly polls, elections but this is not the time to a challenge, we should keep should replace Sonia Gandhi as alliance NDA got a clear Congress is currently the fourth- indulge in politics.The statement electoral politics aside. Instead, UPA chairperson and the demand majority to form the government largest party in the state Assembly comes days after Sena’s ally we must use our self-confidence to rename Aurangabad. but due to internal conflict, Shiv after BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP. Congress announced that while it and self-esteem to ensure the well Whereas, NCP supremo Sena left the alliance (NDA) and Speaking to the media Patole will stay on as a partner in the being of the people and the state.” Sharad Pawar and the game form a new alliance with showed confidence in Congress Maha Vikas Aghadi government On multiple occasions, changer who holds all the Nationalist Congress Party and becoming the number one party in in Maharashtra, henceforth, it will Congress has made it clear that it controls maintained dignified Indian National Congress called Maharashtra by 2024. At the same contest all elections on its own. would not dither to quit the silence. Hospitality sector urged to relax the lockdown restrictions in Mumbai alls and hotels face similar problems. Almost 35% of listed in the Level 1 unlock order. hotels and restaurants remain shutting in the state due to This exaggeratedly watchful approach is resulting in extremely Mlast year's lockdown because they could not sustain or serious damage to the businesses, especially to restaurants in survive. The turnover of the remaining establishments is below 50% Mumbai. In cities falling under Level 2 including Thane, Navi against pre-COVID-19 levels. With the latest lockdown order, at Mumbai and Pune, restaurants and bars are operating till 11pm even least another 30% of restaurants will shut down permanently. on weekends but only Mumbai remains an exception. Now Mumbai In the wake of dip in the positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancy, is in level 1 and it is extremely unfair to restaurants in the city to be Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) not allowed to operate as per the permitted relaxations. The cure is requested that the restaurants in the city have been operating with turning out to be worse than the disease. level 3 restrictions whereas most cities in the State have been offered Since March 2020 restaurants in Mumbai have remained closed Dr.Vaidehi relaxations. The association has appealed to the government to be fair and to allow restaurants to operate as per permissible guidelines CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews MONDAY, JUNE 21 , 2021 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 Hospitality sector urged to relax the lockdown restrictions in Mumbai << PAGE 1 care of their families. a rising number of cases. In most When there is no business, there is no Now countries the lockdown was eased work for daily wage workers. Daily when the new cases had dropped and were allowed to reopen briefly for a period of 4 to workers need to be paid a living wage so Mumbai is in sharply. The business is down by 50 5 months with several restrictions. No relief has been that they can face the challenge of a percent in Mumbai. Hundreds of granted to the industry with regards to the payment of future pandemic. The possibility of new level 1 and it retailers in Mumbai, India's financial statutory charges and fees. All these factors combined viruses attacking human kind has is extremely capital, face similar challenges. Worst have led to financial losses resulting in the closure of increased as the environment has been hit by the lockdown are stores that deal almost 40 percent of restaurants and hotels in the State greatly troubled and animals have come unfair to in non-essential services, as they aren't so far and several more are walking a tightrope. closer to human populations. In the last restaurants even allowed to open at all, even for Huge numbers of businesses have suffered losses and 20 years, the coronavirus is the seventh four hours. many have closed down, particularly, virus to have infected in the city to The $300-billion-strong (€250 the small and micro sector units that humans. Business is chain, billion) Maharashtra economy sunken have small investment. Many have been The if one segment suffers be not into lockdown on April 4 with a unable to pay their EMIs, shop rents and government’ entire setup collapse. allowed to nighttime curfew, followed by a electricity bills above all taking care of Some could work from complete lockdown announced on family needs without any income. A s pro- home (WFH) via the net operate as April 14, in an attempt to control the moratorium was offered till the end of business but most could not. per the second wave of the COVID-19 August but that has not helped many Children had to have pandemic which is ravaging the strained units. With failures, the already stance is also classes via the net. The use permitted country. The government announced high NPAs of the banks will spurt and of telecom services shot later that only essential services stores the financial sector is likely to face clear from up. But the efficiency of relaxations. will be allowed to open, from 7 a.m. to further problems. the way work and studies was not 11 a.m., which means that all other In India business groups or small big what it used to be since people were not businesses, including malls, multiplexes, spas, clubs, traders, never got any support from lockdown used to the new requirements. restaurants, bars and beauty parlors will be completely anyone. They are assumed to be was handled, Businesses cannot expand unless shut. wealthy and get ignored by every demand revives but that is unlikely with Maharashtra is the richest state in the country, sector. From past one and half years very the low consumer sentiment in the according to its Gross State Domestic Product many are gone hand to mouth and at organized sector itself. It is much worse (GSDP), and represents around 15% of India's total least fifty traders of Mumbai irresponsible in the unorganized sector. GDP. Mumbai-based rating agency Care Ratings has committed suicide. Many Beauticians, and The government’s pro-business stance projected that around $5.4 billion of GDP is being lost salon owners, spa therapists and street is also clear from the way lockdown was in every month of lockdown. This kind of mass vendors have taken their lives. They inefficient. handled, very irresponsible and destruction of business has not been witnessed since need to have savings to be able to take inefficient. It was eased when India had Independence. [email protected] vaidehitaman vaidehisachin Volume No. 12 | Issue No. 266 Editor Dr. Vaidehi Printer and Publisher Printed at Newsmakers Publications Pvt. Ltd. S R Publication & Printing Press Vaishali Nagar, Dahisar (E), Mumbai - 68. www.afternoonvoice.com www.newsmakers.co.in Shop No 07, Swapna Siddhi Complex, www.beyondthenews.biz www.nbcaward.com Akurli Road, Kandivali (East), Mumbai 400 101. www.mumbaimanoos.com www.hackers5.com Post Box No.8571 Mumbai- 400 101 Tel: 9137352545 Email- [email protected] • SMS -9820199881 For any queries regarding the editorial desk, contact - 7506760610 Disclaimer : The views expressed in the edit are solely of the editor.