WATCH | Fire Breaks Out At Sane Guruji Tarun Mitra Mandal in Pune, No Casualty Reported

A massive fire broke out at a Ganesh puja pandal in Pune’s Sane Guruji Tarun Mitra Mandal on Tuesday. The fire tenders soon reached the location to douse the flames.

No casualty was reported in the incident and the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

The blaze may have been caused by fireworks at the pandal set up by the Sane Guruji Ganesh Mitra Mandal, a fire official said.

“The fire was successfully contained and no person sustained injuries,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Suhail Sharma said.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda had visited the pandal for aarti along with the party’s Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Visuals from the scene showed Nadda being safely escorted out of the venue even after the fire engulfed the top portion of the makeshift pandal in the Lokmanya Nagar area in the heart of the city.

Sharma said after the fire broke out during Nadda’s visit to the Ganesh pandal, “police officers at duty immediately responded with local support and fire brigade units were deployed”.

The DCP also said that the BJP president left the spot to attend ‘aarti’ at another Lord Ganesh pandal in the Kothrud area of the city.

Pune city BJP president Dhiraj Ghare and security personnel took Nadda safely out of the pandal, where a replica of the Mahakal temple was erected as the theme. The fire was soon extinguished as it started raining within some time.

(with PTI inputs)