3800 Mandal out of which 90% don’t have even 10 karyakartas. Balance even if they have 50 each on average becomes 15 to 20,000 people. For these 20,000 to 30,000 people Pune population of 1 cr should suffer ? They’re not even 1% of the population of Pune. How many trees have these Mandal folks come to save or plant ? I’ll give you a number (I have attended over 100 tree hearings in the past half decade or so). Zero. Mandal karyakartas have attended Zero or come for Zero hearings or Planted Zero trees. 🌳 Zero is their contribution. I have planted lakhs of trees, saved thousands. Mandal Contributions = Zero… More people now donate blood at IT parks and corporate blood donation events than at Mandals and they did nothing during covid or at Least I never encountered them anywhere doing anything meaningful. @SaxsSathya burned and cremated 50-60 bodies at a time at Vaikunth. Zero volunteers came forward from Mandals. In fact these elements are totally extortionist and goon elements used by political interests to perpetuate fear amongst decent educated middle classes. They fund their operations through extortion - Who will mess with the Mandals. Every neighbourhood small business, shopkeeper, middle class household is extorted from “wargani” is what it’s called. They’re forced to pay against their own will. That’s how the mandals fund their operations. Extortion racket, corruption and mafia enterprise. That’s who they really are. That’s their truth, their “criminal” value system. 1890 to 1950 = 60 years & 1950 to 2025 = 75 years now post independence. What has this festival become ? If Tilak would have been alive today, he would have agreed with Bapat and with us. And, what about the 800 to 1000 kids every year who suffer hearing loss or loss of sight - who will take their responsibility that’s when, the Mandals quietly disappear - Truth be told, Mandals are a criminal menace. At times a criminal enterprise. Their ability to create criminals like “Santosh Chavan” was on full display yesterday when Bapat was assaulted. This confidence that I’ll get away with crime comes from the strength of the mobocracy that the Mandal births, nurses and engenders. They have destroyed Pune. They later spawn koyta gangs and help become organised crime syndicates. That’s the purpose they serve. Politicians use them as mercenaries. They’re their neighbourhood guns for hire. They work for their favourite political mafia boss. Mostly whoever throws money at them, this is their identity. Mandals = Crime. Time to disband them.