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Destitute former Shiv Sena minister adopted by NGO
Monday January 21, 2013 09:34:00 PM,
IANS
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Thane: An NGO Monday
rescued an ailing and destitute former Shiv Sena minister who was
the party's secular face in its government in 1995-99 and
rehabilitated him in an old age home in Aurangabad.
Former Shiv Sena leader Shabbir Shaikh, (72), a two-time
legislator from Ambernath and labour and minority affairs minister
in the erstwhile Shiv Sena-BJP government, was taken from his
small home in Kalyan to a senior citizens' home in Aurangabad.
Local NGO Kalpataru Yuva Vikas Manch (KYVM) will bear the entire
cost of Shaikh's lodging, boarding and medication at the senior
citizens' home for the rest of his life.
KYVM will pay about Rs.3,000 per month for Shaikh's stay and care
in the Aurangabad home.
"When we learnt about his sad plight from a local TV report, KYVM
decided to do something to enable him to spend the rest of his
life with dignity," the NGO's president Sanjay B. Tambe-Patil told
IANS.
Until last year, despite his frail health, Shaikh used to visit
the ailing Shiv Sena patriarch, the late Bal Thackeray, on his
birthday Jan 23.
"Shaikh was forgotten by the Shiv Sena, of which he was one of the
original founder-members," said Tambe-Patil.
He said that since the whereabouts of his family are not known and
no one knows why he was abandoned, the SYVM decided to adopt him.
"It is presumed that when in power, ministers make a lot of money.
But here is a different example. Whatever he did as a legislator
or as a minister was entirely in public interest, never for
self-interest," Tambe-Patil said.
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