Mumbai, July 17: With the increase in deaths, and accidents due to potholes in the city, angry MNS workers protested against the pathetic condition of the roads by breaking the side road outside the Mantralaya. According to a Zee News report, by shouting slogans, and armed with tools, they vandalised the sidewalk outside the Secretariat to garner attention. While one of the men waved the national flag, the other men continued to break the road, and throw the debris on the main road. Police finally managed to arrest four people, and thus put an end to the ruckus created by them.

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After five people lost their lives due to damaged roads in Mumbai earlier this month, Maharashtra's PWD Minister Chandrakant Patil recently came up with a bizarre statement saying, "When you talk about a death in such an accident, you forget that five lakh other people have travelled on the same road”. He was severely criticised, and following which he said, "I didn't mean to hurt anyone's sentiments, I had made a general statement."

The Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam, one of the opposition leaders, came up with an innovative idea to focus the attention of the authorities and the government to the potholes ridden roads in Mumbai. Nirupam in his latest campaign has urged the citizens to click the pictures of potholes in their areas and report it to the authorities. Besides this, he has also come up with a hashtag-- #chalo_pothole_ginne, which means, "let's count the potholes." The purpose behind the move is to provide good roads to the citizens who have to experience bumpy rides, and in more serious cases, endanger their lives because of the potholes.

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