Kolkata: A group of miscreants forced an elderly couple to chant Jai Shri Ram at Andal in Budrwan district of Wes Bengal. A video of the victim blind couple Abdul Basheer (67) and 61-year-old Bedan Bibi has gone viral on social media.

The couple in the video is seen desperately pleading that they are blind and could not walk properly, but their pleas had little impact on the goons, who made fun of their disability. A miscreants is heard saying disparagingly, “So what you can’t see. You don’t have to use your eyes to chant Jai Shri Ram. Use your mouth.”

The elderly Muslim man then says there was no difference between Hindus and Muslims adding that ‘Bhagwan and Allah were the same.’ But the Hindutva goons threaten to beat them up if they refused to chant Jai Shri Ram and Jai Maa Tara.

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Mumbai, Nov 23: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole survived a scare from his nearest BJP rival in the Sakoli assembly constituency but managed to win the tight contest by a narrow margin of 208 votes.

Patole, the incumbent Congress MLA from Sakoli, polled 96,795 votes, while his challenger from BJP, Avinash Brahmankar, came tantalisingly close to bagging 96,587 votes.

Independent nominee Somadatta Karanjekar was a distant third, bagging 18,309 votes.

While Patole managed to save the face with the thin margin, the Congress unit led by him and the Maha Vikas Aghadi were routed by the BJP-led Mahayuti in the one-sided contest.