Navy used assaulted by Shiv Sena staff in Mumbai: Congress claims BJP MP orchestrated assault on ex-Army man four years inside the previous in Maharashtra, slams occasion’s ‘double necessities’
Amid criticism over the assault on a retired naval officer in Mumbai by six Shiv Sena occasion staff, the Congress, which is certainly one of Sena’s ruling companions, claimed a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) had orchestrated an assault on an navy used 4 years inside the previous and puzzled BJP’s “double necessities” on the subject. BJP leaders had criticised the Maharashtra authorities for the assault on the navy used, with primitive chief minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis inspiring to CM Uddhav Thackeray to whole the ‘goonda raj’ inside the converse.
Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant has claimed that in 2016, an navy used, Sonu Mahajan, was attacked on the behest of BJP MP Unmesh Patil in Chalisgaon location in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district.
“The then BJP authorities did now not register an FIR (first data characterize) and in fact hounded him. Mahajan needed to potential the excessive courtroom to get the case registered. The BJP has now not taken any transfer towards Patil. In inequity to that, our authorities (Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi) booked the accused and arrested them inside the scream case,” mentioned Sawant.
Mahajan in a recorded message spoke of harassment by the BJP MP.
“Regardless of being attacked by Unmesh Patil’s males, I used to be locked up in penal superior. It was at closing in 2019 that I used to be in a location to get the case registered on the orders of the excessive courtroom. On the totally different hand until date, no transfer has been taken towards Patil or his males who attacked me,” mentioned Mahajan.
The BJP was speedy to rebuff the allegations as baseless. “Why didn’t the Congress elevate this enviornment all these years? Even the FIR filed inside the Madan Sharma (the retired naval officer) case was an demand-wash as all the accused received bail inside no time,” mentioned BJP legislator Atul Bhatalkar.
On Friday, Sharma was attacked by six Shiv Sena staff in Kandivli after he allegedly shared a chilly titillating movie mocking Thackeray. The BJP led the onslaught calling the incident “converse-sponsored terrorism”. On Saturday, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh had a telephonic dialog with Sharma and later tweeted that “assaults on servicemen had been inferior and unacceptable”.
The Sena, then once more, mentioned it was now not appropriate to pull the occasion into this enviornment.
“The employees did now not seize permission from us. On the totally different hand on the an identical time, it was faulty to provoke people as they’ve excessive respect for his or her leaders,” mentioned Sena MP Sanjay Raut.
