Signature campaign to protest transfer of IAS officer

Residents in adjoining Navi Mumbai have launched a signature campaign to protest the 'arbitrary' transfer of IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe, claiming he was removed as Navi Mumbai Municipal Commissioner as punishment for taking on the builders lobby.

"We are part of the signature campaign to demand scrapping of Mundhe's transfer. Navi Mumbai needs such honest and pro-people officers," Gajanan Kale, Navi Mumbai chief of the Raj Thackeray-led MNS in Navi Mumbai said.

"So far, we have received around 5000 signatures. Our target is to collect 50,000 signatures in Mundhe's support and send them to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, seeking cancellation of the transfer order," Kale told

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