PM Modi’s BKC event: They came, parked, littered and left, complain MU students

This right here is the sight that the Mumbai University students woke up to on Friday Used water bottles food packets and other plastics waste littered across the Kalina campus which the BMC used for parking vehicles on Thursday of attendees to the BKC event of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who always bats for his ambitious Swachh Bharat missionNot just that the mobile toilets stationed there a day before were parked right outside the Ambedkar Bhavan and near the helipad at MU campus much to the astonishment of students and activists Students while speaking to midday on Wednesday had warned that such a thing was highly likely post the event The BMC had broken a part of the newly built compound boundary to make way for the vehicles Studentsrsquo bodies and youth wings of political parties including the Yuva Sena of Uddhav Thackerayrsquos Shiv Sena protested the ldquomessrdquoAlso Read PM Modirsquos Mumbai visit With doubleengine govt Maha back on path of development says FadnavislsquoThe new normal is itrsquoldquoShould we prepare ourselves for this sight all the time nowrdquo asked Ashish Dwivedi a varsity alumnus and Mumbai president of Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti He added ldquoThe university has allowed temporary parking space as well as mobile toilets on the campus twice now first was for CM Eknath Shindersquos Dussehra rally This time it was for the PM who introduced Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to the people of India Both the events have set a precedent for others too Will the MU be able to deny permissions to others nowrdquoDuring Shindersquos event the mess was much worse points out Pradeep Sawant former MU senate member from Yuva Sena There were liquor bottles and cigarette butts too he said adding that such a thing cannot go on This is a university campus The current situation is disrespectful to the sanctity of an educational institutionrdquo Sawant addedlsquoMU does nothingrsquoSantosh Gangurde student activist and state chief organiser of Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena said ldquoDespite having an autonomous status the Mumbai University has done nothing to stop this or even set strict rules and conditions before giving out any space on the campusrdquoThe mobile toilets parked near the helipadldquoThey were providing space on the campus for shootings and now for temporary parking for attendees to political events These ridiculous actions by the state government and even the BMC are lowering the standing of this esteemed educational institution Still no effort has been made to name a fulltime vicechancellor for the universityrdquo Gangurde addedThe campus was cleaned by BMC workers only in the afternoon The broken compound wall was secured merely with a few bamboo poles BMC officials have assured to rebuild the broken portion but have not said when ldquoThe bottles food packets etc were cleared and there is no mess anymore Even at the university level we have ensured that our students are not inconvenienced at allrdquo said an MU official