THANE: IAS official Sanjeev Jaiswal, a former municipal commissioner, has written to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking action against Sanjay Ghadigaonkar, a former Congress politician, accusing him of vendetta politics, continuous harassment and trying to physically harm him.
“Ever since Ghadigaonkar lost his seat, he has been harassing me.
The harassment continued with even after I left Thane last year.
He sent a letter to the CM following which I have also sent my official complaint laying bare few wrongdoings by few politicians in Thane city.
I now fear for my life and have accordingly approached the CM, who is aware of my work in Thane,” Jaiswal said.
The letter comes days after Ghadigaonkar, a former corporator, had independently written to Thackeray seeking a detailed probe into all projects and the functioning of the Thane Municipal Corporation during Jaiswal’s tenure.
The submission of letters has once again exposed the simmering hostility between Jaiswal and a few local politicians even after a year and a half of the bureaucrat exiting Thane to assume greater responsibilities in the Mumbai corporation and his subsequent transfer to the fisheries department.
In his letter to Thackeray, the bureaucrat, who is credited with having helped transform the cityscape during his five-year tenure, has accused Ghadigaonkar of harassing him after he was disqualified and barred from contesting polls for submitting fake caste validation certificates during the civic polls.
He accused Ghadigaonkar of supporting illegal constructions in the city and misusing the RTI.
Meanwhile, Ghadigaonkar, who had switched loyalties to the BJP and later returned to Congress, maintained there have been severalirregularities in functioning of the corporation during the tenure of Jaiswal.