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Very unusual and surprising raining and storm in the month of MAY in North India has made the weather experts to bite their nails. Every year, when the North Indians were used to face the scorching sun in the month of May, they are enjoying the sudden rain splashes this year. However, stormy rain and thunder is giving a jolt to smooth routine of the citizens damaging life and destroying crops.

Dust storms and heavy rains lashed huge swaths of Northern India, killing at least 22 overnight, an official said Tuesday. An additional 89 people died in non seasonal rain and dust storms in Uttar Pradesh state last week, police spokesman Surendra Srivastava said in Lucknow.

Srivastava said that strong winds of more than 70 miles per hour (113 kph) and heavy rains resulted in uprooting trees and electricity poles and destroying mud-brick houses.

“At least 22 people, five of them children, were killed in different incidents of house collapses and lightning strikes,” Srivastava said.

Another 23 people were injured and have been admitted to state-run hospitals, he added. According to government estimates the state has lost property and crops worth one billion rupees (USD 25 million; 16 million) because of two weeks of bad weather.

As reported the much-awaited South-West Monsoon on Tuesday further advanced into some more parts Bay of Bengal and is expected to set in over Kerala in the next three to four days.

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North Indian leaders of the Shiv Sena have resigned en-masse from the party protesting its offensive behavior and conduct towards non-Marathis and North Indians in Maharashtra. The leaders decided to float a separate party of their own.

“The new party will give due respect to different regions, languages and cultures of India and will allow total freedom of thought and expression,” Shiv Sena’s North India chief Jai Bhagwan Goyal said.

Leaders of party unit in Himachal Pradesh include Dinanath Pandey, Jharkhand Shiv Sena chief and Madhukar Dogri who resigned.

“Shiv Sena is no different from Khalistan and Jammu and Kashmir militant groups, which are trying to create a rift between people along regional lines. The main aim of these forces is to split our country,” Goyal told media persons in New Delhi on Wednesday.

“The outrageous conduct of Shiv Sena towards non-Marathis and North Indians in Maharashtra has deeply hurt the sentiments of Shiv Sainiks in this region,” he said.

Goyal who was associated with the Shiv Sena for the past 20 years, accused the saffron group of getting reduced to a ‘private limited company’ run by party supremo Bal Thackeray’s son Uddhav and his followers, and further charged them with wanting to limit the party within Maharashtra’s boundaries.

“Bal Thackeray’s role has been reduced to a mere puppet and he is acting according to his son’s wishes,” he said.

Goyal said, “If the attacks on our people will not stop, we will retaliate and we can go to any extent.”

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