assaulted an Air India staffer in Delhi +cancelled +Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray +PUNE: Osmanabad's Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad , whoon Thursday, refused to reveal his whereabouts when contacted by TOI over the phone on Sunday. I am with my family members and I will celebrate Gudi Padwa with them before returning to Parliament on Wednesday morning," he said.Gaikwad admitted that he is lying low on his party's instructions. "I have been asked to stay quiet and not escalate matters so that there is no increase in tension in connection with the entire (Air India) episode. The MP had a business class ticket but the flight which he boarded from Pune was an all-economy one. Yet, on reaching Delhi, Gaikwad refused to deboard and got into a verbal duel with the airline staffers before assaulting one of them.

Source: Times of India March 27, 2017 01:47 UTC