MNS, NCP clashes wreak havoc in state
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers came out onto the roads in different parts of Maharashtra and began attacking NCP offices in the state and vandalising public and private vehicles. The NCP headquarters in Mumbai was vandalised as well as other party offices in Dadar, Mahim, Bandra and Sion-Koliwada.
MNS men vandalised the NCP party office in the latter’s stronghold of Pune and burnt hoardings and posters of party chief Sharad Pawar and nephew Ajit. Not just party offices, MNS workers attacked the homes of local leaders in districts like Hingoli and smashed private vehicles belonging to NCP functionaries. In Yeotmal, Beed, Aurangabad and Nanded, the MNS began attacking public and private vehicles. Even ambulances were not spared. In Akola, the MNS workers even tried to burn down the NCP office.
In Nashik, effigies of both Raj Thackeray and Ajit Pawar were burnt by NCP and MNS activists respectively. MNS activists led by MLA Vasant Gite blocked roads, stopped traffic, shouted slogans and burnt an effigy of deputy CM Ajit Pawar in the Mumbai naka area on the Mumbai-Agra National Highway. Twenty-three persons were arrested and released, the police said.
Speaking to the activists, Mr Gite said they were using democratic means to register their protest and would not buckle under pressure. Mr Raj Thackeray’s cousin, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, came out in his support, accusing the NCP of resorting to hooliganism and using the police department to shield them. “If the NCP wants to take stones in their hands, they should step out of the government and come to the street (sic),” the Sena chief said. However, NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik denied that the people who attacked Mr Raj Thackeray’s convoy were NCP workers. “Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has become Goonda Nirman Sena,” Mr Malik said.
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