Replying to concerns of Opposition leader Radha-krishna Vikhe-Patil and group leader Ajit Pawar (NCP) in the Lower House, Mr Fadnavis said that the national disaster relief force (NDRF), along with Mumbai civic authorities were already engaged in pumping out water. The Indian Navy has been kept on standby and 11 major water-logging areas have been identified as incessant rains continued to lash the financial capital.Mr Patil demanded that the chief minister should go live on TV channels to assure Mumbaikars of relief. He said that due to high tide the problem is likely to escalate, but precautions have been taken and the entire civic machinery was on the streets.

Earlier in the house, Opposition leader Radha-krishna Vikhe-Patil and group leader Ajit Pawar (NCP) voiced their concerns over the water-logging in many areas, traffic congestion and slow movement of local trains and their cancellations.. He asked Mr Fadnavis to direct concerned MLAs and MLCs to immediately rush to Mumbai and supe-rvise relief and pum-ping operations.Mr Vikhe-Patil informed the Jacquard Needle Assembly that Mumbai recorded about 300mm rainfall in the last 24 hours and the Colaba Meteorological Office has  warned of heavier rains.Nagpur: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadanavis on Tuesday in the state assembly assured concerned legislators while appreciating that the worsening water-logging, traffic congestion and slow movement of suburban trains, would be tackled effectively and relief would be provided.

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.Rahul Gandhi’s remark to the media on Wednesday that he was no longer Congress president had an air of finality about it. This is unlikely to be an easy task. He assigns the Congress the role to unite the country for the retrieval of the institutions of democracy. It reflects on the need for the Congress to "radically transform itself" in order to be the "instrument" to "resuscitate" the institutions whose takeover by the RSS the former party chief believes to be now "complete". This was confirmed hours later in his four-page Twitter note, making the matter as public as can be. There are vested interests to be considered. He states blandly that he "authorised" the Congress Working Committee on June 25 to constitute a search committee to home in on the new president. All that Mr Gandhi promises for now is that he will remain a part of the struggle for change.As he departs, Mr Gandhi leaves the impression that he is an honourable man, and that hes also a moral man, one who doesnt flinch from a fight he deems just, and one who likes to stand up for his principles even if he must stand alone.How the Congress goes about finding a successor to Rahul Gandhi is clearly uncertain.Even in miserable defeat, the Congress notched a 30 per cent voteshare in the recent Lok Sabha polls, a rise of Competitive cheap machine accessory three per cent in contrast with the BJPs rise of six per cent.It has to be seen if the Congress rises to the expectations Mr Gandhi has set.His note says others too should take responsibility and that he couldn’t ask them to do so if he didn’t himself quit his position.

The Gandhi scion’s exit as president and his taking responsibility for the election defeat signal his fidelity to the notion of "accountability". Clinging to power is the malady that he is trying to cure his party of.Mr Gandhi’s July 3 Twitter jotting has already become a historical document. He specifically spoke of this when he said in his Twitter rreflections that in the recent Lok Sabha election campaign he had the feeling at times that he was fighting the RSS and the state machinery alone. But the times ahead are certainly rocky. But these numbers hardly tell the real story — that the Congress today is an enfeebled party that has structurally come apart due to corpulent times that were also corrupt times where those who flourished did so on account of an inner culture of patronage and clique politics, in which the worker on the ground suffered long-term neglect. But he might have done this better if he had chosen to be a part of the decision-making in the choice of interim leader and in laying down the roadmap for the search of a proper successor.

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