10-month-old in dies Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar of suspected measles, comments spark furore taking toll in city to 9

MUMBAI: After his sustained attacks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar led to the Shiv Sena (UBT) threatening to pull out of the MVA, Rahul Gandhi refrained from any mention of the Hindutva ideologue at his rally at Shegaon in Buldhana district on Friday.

Earlier in the day, Congress leader and spokesperson Jairam Ramesh called Sena MP and Saamana’s executive editor Sanjay Raut to clear the air. “I had a long chat with Sanjay Raut ji and I told him that Rahul Gandhi had spoken his mind, and the same was the case with your leadership. It (criticism of Savarkar) has nothing to do with the MVA coalition, it is a matter of different perspectives, outlook and approach,” Jairam Ramesh later said.

MUMBAI: A 10-month-old girl from Govandi, who was undergoing treatment for measles at Kasturba Hospital, died on November 3. Her death was added to the suspected measles deaths only on Friday, taking the number of fatalities to nine.

The child had started showing symptoms of measles when her parents had taken her to Thane on November 1. They took her to a private hospital, after which the girl was referred to another private hospital in Chembur.

“The next day, the child started feeling breathless, but the hospital was not equipped with a ventilator bed. Her parents had decided to shift her to yet another private hospital