Lagatar24 Desk
Aurangabad, Feb 8: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray’s car was pelted with stones during the Shiv Sanvaad Yatra in Aurangabad’s Vaijapur area on Tuesday evening.
The incident occurred when Thackeray’s program and Ramabai Ambedkar’s procession took place simultaneously.
Taking to Twitter, Ambadas Danve, Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, said that three or four stones were hurled in the direction of the meeting in the Mahalgaon area when they were leaving. He alleged that the attack was carried out during the public meeting when Thackeray was leaving the venue.
A stone fell inside venue, some stones were pelted at convoy while we were leaving the venue. Crowd was raising slogans in support of local MLA, Ramesh Bornare. It was an attempt by anti-social elements in mob to create a rift b/w 2 groups:LoP in Legislative Council Ambadas Danve pic.twitter.com/BFpijl7Ajy
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“Some stones were pelted at the convoy while we were leaving the venue. A stone fell inside the venue. The crowd was raising slogans in support of local MLA, Ramesh Bornare. It was an attempt by anti-social elements in the mob to create a rift between the two groups,” said he.
Danawe wrote to the Maharashtra police Director General about the security breach at Thackeray’s event and urged him to take necessary action.
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There is an unforgivable fault in the security in this case and it should be seriously intervened, said he.
However, District Superintendent of Police Maneesh Kalwaniya said that two rival groups were sloganeering and there were no cases of stone-pelting.
Danve said that after the police asked them to stop the DJ and the procession, the crowd went angry and started pelting stones at the convoy.
“Looking at the situation, Aaditya Thackeray gave the speech by coming down the stage. He apologised to the crowd for the inconvenience and said that they can if they want to play the DJ and carry out the procession,” he further said.
Danve also alleged that the crowd tried to stop Aaditya Thackeray’s car, but it was taken out safely by the security guards.
