Maharashtra: Rain stops in Nagpur, politics over it starts

The highest 24-hour rain record in Nagpur stood at 304 mm, which was registered on July 12, 1994.

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Nagpur: After it stopped raining in Nagpur city in Eastern Maharashtra r, several localities several were flooded and disrupted routine life in the region. While the rain stopped, politics over has started. Nagpur is the second capital of Maharashtra and is also CM Devendra Fadnavis and transport minister Nitin Gadkari’s hometown. Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece Saamana attacked them and wrote that the BJP is functioning both the Center and the state, despite that the city came to a standstill in a few hours of rain. The incessant downpour in Nagpur has caused water-logging in several areas of the city, where incidents of uprooting of trees were also reported and where the session in the Vidarbha region too was interrupted due to a power blackout caused by the rains. A dead body of a person was recovered by police near Hudkeshwar Nalla. A total of 135 people have been rescued from various parts of Nagpur rural and city and 450 students were rescued from Adarsh Sanskar Vidyalaya in Pipla. Met Department has predicted heavy rainfall is expected in the next 24 hours also. The orange city had registered 265 mm of rainfall between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm yesterday. The highest 24-hour rain record in Nagpur stood at 304 mm, which was registered on July 12, 1994. The power supply had been turned off after the switching centre that provides electricity to the assembly complex was flooded following heavy rains in the second capital of Maharashtra.