Vinayak Mete

Days after former MLC Vinayak Mete died in a car crash on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said it was an "utterly wrong judgement" of the vehicle's driver.

Vinayak Mete (52), who headed the Maratha outfit Shiv Sangram Sanghatna, was killed after a vehicle hit his car on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Sunday last.

Maratha community leader Vinayak Mete died in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway this morning.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Memorial Committee chairman Vinayak Mete said that in the past few months, a senior team of government officials negotiated with the company on various aspects before the revised cost was finalised.

Maharashtra government wants to raise the height of the ambitious Shivaji memorial off Mumbai coast from 192 metres to 210 metres, reportedly because it wants to surpass a Buddha statue coming up in China.

Days after former MLC Vinayak Mete died in a car crash on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said it was an "utterly wrong judgement" of the vehicle's driver.

Vinayak Mete (52), who headed the Maratha outfit Shiv Sangram Sanghatna, was killed after a vehicle hit his car on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Sunday last.

Maratha community leader Vinayak Mete died in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway this morning.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Memorial Committee chairman Vinayak Mete said that in the past few months, a senior team of government officials negotiated with the company on various aspects before the revised cost was finalised.

Maharashtra government wants to raise the height of the ambitious Shivaji memorial off Mumbai coast from 192 metres to 210 metres, reportedly because it wants to surpass a Buddha statue coming up in China.