Mumbai: In yet another incident of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) men assaulting vocal critics of their party chief Raj Thackeray on social media, party workers made an Ambernath resident, Sandeep Tiwari, perform sit-ups after he posted a message criticizing the leader.
A video of Mr Tiwari performing his “penalty” and begging for Mr Thackeray’s forgiveness has gone viral.
While Mr Thackeray has been likening PM Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler, a group of MNS workers recently barged into the residence of a Ghatkopar resident and thrashed him for alleged objectionable online comments against the party president.
MNS workers from Ambernath had brought Mr Tiwari from his Dhara Residency home and to the MNS office at Ambernath where party workers allegedly beat him up. He was then allegedly asked him to do 25 sit-ups and apologise to Mr Thackeray.
In the video, Mr Tiwari is seen stating with folded hands: “By mistake I have sent video and for the same I am apologising Raj Thackeray.”
Justifying the actions of the workers, MNS sp-okesperson Sandeep De-shpande said, “In a de-mocracy everyone has the right to express, co-mment and criticize. But criticism should not be below the belt. Those who will use bad langua-ge against Raj Thack-eray will be beaten up by MNS party workers.”
