Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray had a narrow escape on Friday evening as a huge chandelier collapsed along with a slab at the State-run Sahyadri Guest House at Malabar Hill in south Mumbai.
The mishap took place when Aaditya was holding meetings with the officials of his Ministry in hall no 4. As the meeting was going on a huge chandelier, there was a deafening sound outside the hall where the chandelier came crashing down along with a slab.
The mishap caused huge commotion in the state-run guest house, where security personnel went into a tizzy. Though no one was injured in the mishap, the incident caused some scare among those present at the state-run guest house at that time.
Official sources said that the crashed structure is 25 years’ old. The PWD officials will examine the report of structural audit of the entire guest house carried out in rhew recent past.
Before long, the PWD officials – who maintain the Sahyadri Guest House – arrived on the scene and inspected the place. Over the next few days, the PWD officials are expected to undertake necessary repairs and also survey all the halls at the Sahyadri Guest House and take measures to ensure against recurrence of mishaps there.
Over the years, the Maharashtra Ministers, including Chief Ministers, have often used Sahydri guest house for their meetings.
However, after the outbreak of Covid-19 which saw detection of Covid-19 cases in Mantralaya (State Secretariat), Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other Ministers have been regularly holding meetings at Sahyadri Guest House.