Now, MNS sets sight on migrant truck drivers

Party workers warn cops to clear streets of North-Indian truck drivers or brave citywide agitation tomorrow

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is taking their anti-north India campaign to all new heights.

After demanding for migrants to leave the city, the MNS is now demanding that the traffic police remove all trucks parked at LBS Marg, especially those driven by North Indians and citizens of Uttar Pradesh.


MNS workers allege that trucks are double-parked on important roads creating huge bottlenecks

The MNS has issued an ultimatum to the Kurla traffic police to clear the LBS road from Maharashtra Kata to Ghatkopar of trucks and other vehicles by next Friday.

Threatening to agitate in MNS style, the president of the MNS Vahatuk Sena Haji Arafat said, "LBS road is a very important road and connected to important roads including BKC.

But hundreds of trucks and other vehicles are parked on the road some are even double-parked.

The result is that there is a huge traffic jam on the roads and it takes around one hour from Ghatkopar to reach the end of Kurla."

"If the roads are not cleared, we will resort to a chakka jaam on Friday."

Arafat added that there were several illegal garages and godowns situated there. He also blamed the increasing number of accidents to the illegal parking of cars on the road.
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Arafat claimed that the illegal happenings in the city were done in connivance with the traffic police and their several complaints to the police went unheeded.

"In the city, every day 500 vehicles are added to the population.

The roads are the same and the infrastructure is the same and we are carrying our enforcement work with meager resources in terms of manpower.

Despite our meager resources, we maintain traffic discipline but people also need to be disciplined," said Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Brijesh Singh.

In The Past
The MNS had launched a violent campaign to drive out north Indian taxi drivers across the city.
Many drivers were slapped, kicked and assaulted and their vehicles were pelted with stones and bricks. Several drivers hung their badges and departed for their native places.