Anyone threatening our workers will be made to sleep on ice slab, says Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai, Nov 15: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has said anyone who threatens the workers of his party during the ongoing election campaign will be "made to sleep on ice slab", sparking a war of words with rival Sena leader Ramdas Kadam.
Speaking in Dapoli in coastal Maharashtra on Thursday, he dubbed as "traitors" Kadam and his son, local MLA Yogesh Kadam, who belong to the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Thackeray, a former state minister, was speaking at a campaign rally ahead of the November 20 assembly elections.
"It is my responsibiity to make anyone who threatens you (Sena UBT workers) sleep on ice slab because we are forming the next government," he said.
Notably, forcing a person to lie on an ice slab was once known as a way of custodial torture.
Hitting back, Ramdas Kadam, a former Leader of Opposition in the legislative council, said his son was Aaditya Thackeray's friend when they were in the same party, but Aaditya later expelled people close to them in Dapoli.
Despite being the local MLA, Yogesh was sidelined during the Dapoli municipal council polls, his father claimed.
It was Aaditya Thackeray who was a traitor as he took away his ministry, Ramdas Kadam further said.
The senior Kadam was environment minister in the Devendra Fadnavis government, but he did not find place in the subsequent Uddhav Thackeray-led dispensation. Aaditya handled the environment portfolio in his father's government.
In 2022, after the Sena split, the Kadams sided with the faction led by Eknath Shinde.
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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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