In an extremely disturbing incident, workers of the Shiv Sena assaulted a veteran Navy official for supposedly forwarding a cartoon on Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, as claimed by BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar on Friday. The veteran affirmed that he was brutally abused for sharing the WhatsApp forward. He likewise said that the Police has first come to capture him.
CCTV film of the occurrence are doing the rounds on social media where the veteran can supposedly been seen being assaulted by a lot of hooligans. The victim has been distinguished as Madan Sharma. The WhatsApp forward was purportedly a mocking cartoon highlighting Uddhav Thackeray and his partners Sharad Pawar and Sonia Gandhi. Sharma is at present getting treatment at the Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali.
In the interim, addressing Times Now, the daughter of the 66-year-old ex-Navy official said that her dad got a message on WhatsApp which he further sent. From that point, he got many calls and he was approached to come downstairs. At the point when my dad went down, they attacked and assaulted him, she said.
The veteran additionally said that he had never anticipated that something like this should transpire in his own nation. He said that he was helped by the nearby MLA who is from BJP. Former CM Devendra Fadnavis asked Uddhav Thackeray to stop the ‘Gundaraj’ and requested solid punishment for the guilty.
The Shiv Sena has been acting in progressively domineering style of late. Recently, the Shiv Sena-controlled BMC had requested the destruction of Kangana Ranaut’s office in Mumbai after her ongoing altercation with the government in the state. The Mumbai Police has likewise detained two reporters related with Republic TV and they are presently moping in prison for three days without admittance to their lawful direction.