Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant has claimed that in 2016, an army veteran, Sonu Mahajan, was attacked at the behest of BJP MP Unmesh Patil in Chalisgaon area in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. “The then BJP government did not register an FIR (first information report) and in fact hounded him. Mahajan in a recorded message spoke of harassment by the BJP MP. On Friday, Sharma was attacked by six Shiv Sena workers in Kandivli after he allegedly shared a cartoon mocking Thackeray. However at the same time, it was wrong to provoke people as they have high respect for their leaders,” said Sena MP Sanjay Raut.

Source: Hindustan Times September 13, 2020 18:11 UTC