News report by Esha Pujari :

Mumbai: .Mumbai Dadar Shiv Sena MLA, Sada Sarvankar shares his views on migrant issues with Hello Mumbai News Team

Mumbai: Mumbai emerged as a magnet for migrants and the financial capital presented a melting pot scenario.

Deporting Migrants to their native place inevitably turned out to be a big issue for the Maharashtra Government.

To get the facts on the burning issue of the migrants Hello Mumbai News Team chanced to speak to Sada Sarvankar, Politician and Dadar Shiv Sena MLA over the phone.

When quizzed which party was responsible for the migrant worker’s crisis, Sarvankar affirmed that no party be it the Shiv Sena or the opposition. But this isn’t the time to play blame game. We need to need to stand together rather than blaming each other. But they are trying to send people to their homeland.

About the spike in cases of Coronavirus in Mumbai, it is on the higher side and there is a need to follow the guidelines and take necessary precautionary measures.

At this time around one should respect and cooperate with all the frontline warriors and inquire on their activities and donations.

He said they have been working since day one of the lockdown. Whenever a patient was suspected positive, he took over the responsibility of helping them and quarantined other people. He also undertook sanitization and supplying the essential items to the societies or the area where they lived and provided rice for more than 20,000 families and daily food packages to the homeless people on roads and highways. He also claimed he faced several difficulties but at this Covid-19 induced lockdown, we need to help and support each other.

He is extremely happy with the work of the BMC as he said that they have been working day and night.

His message to the people is to STAY HOME STAY SAFE and HEALTHY. It is a long term disease. We can fight the Coronavirus through sanitization and maintaining cleanliness.

Introduction on Sada Sarvankar in a nutshell:

Sada Sarvankar is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Mahim Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three terms in 2004, 2014 and 2019.

Prior to that he served as Corporator in Brighanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for three terms from 1992 to 2004 till he was asked to contest from Dadar Constituency in 2004.

News Edit by K.V.Raman