Amit Shah to inaugurate Gopinath Munde memorial tomorrow

A memorial of senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, developed on 18 acres of land at Parli in Beed district, will be inaugurated tomorrow by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in presence of BJP chief Amit Shah, on the occasion of the late Union Minister's birth anniversary.
A 20-feet tall statue of Munde will be unveiled on this occasion at the memorial, called 'Gopinath Gad', a BJP spokesperson told reporters here today.
Work to develop the memorial in the premises of the Vaidyanath Cooperative Sugar Mill began after Munde's demise in a road accident in Delhi on June 3 last year.

The memorial comprises Munde's 'samadhi', called Lotus Temple. It is in the shape of a lotus and is 72 feet tall, with an imposing gate.
BJP state unit president Raosaheb Danve, ministers and senior party officials will attend the event.
Those attending include Assembly Speaker Haribhau Bagde, ministers Eknathrao Khadse, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil, Vinod Tawde, Prakash Mehta, Vishnu Savra, Girish Bapat, Girish Mahajan, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Babanrao Lonikar, Rajkumar Badole of BJP and Eknath Shinde, Subhash Desai, Diwakar Raote, Ramdas Kadam and Deepak Sawant of Shiv Sena.

Sawant had already clarified that all powers to purchase
medicines rest with Central Purchase Committee and the issue of tenders does not come to him.

The minister had said that "if anything wrong has happened (in medicine purchase) then provide me the details, I will take action".
The alleged scam relates to haphazard purchase of medicines under the National Urban Health Mission in which allocation is given by the central government.
State Public Health Department had invited tenders for purchase of 549 medicines and for that allocation of Rs 297 crore was made.
The purchase was made for 26 municipal corporations, 65 municipal councils and four cantonment boards.
The advertisements for purchase of these medicines were issued in newspapers in far away Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Assam.

In order to ensure that the allocation does not get lapsed before March 31, mass orders were issued to suppliers who claimed that they got the orders much after April 15 last year.