Adequate central forces be kept ready: Maha Guv BS Koshyari to Centre

Mumbai: Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari has written to Union some secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla requesting that the adequate provision of central security forces be made and kept ready if needed, and alleged that police remained a "mute spectator" while offices and homes of some dissident MLAs were vandalised.

Koshyari had asked DGP Rajnish Seth to provide adequate police protection to the families and homes of rebel MLAs, a police official said on Sunday.

In his letter dated June 25, Koshyari said he had received a representation from 38 Sena MLAs, two members of the Prahar Janshakti Party and 7 Independent MLAs stating that the police security of their families had been "illegally and unlawfully withdrawn".


Notably, the Centre on Sunday extended Y-plus security cover of CRPF commandos to at least 15 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs, officials said.

Earlier on Sunday, the governor was discharged from a hospital after recovering from Covid-19.