MNS workers attack autorickshaw driver for ‘objectionable' words against Raj Thackeray
Mumbai: MNS workers attacked an autorickshaw driver here and forced him to apologise for allegedly using objectionable language against a Marathi-speaking passenger as well as party chief Raj Thackeray recently.
The incident involving the passenger took place in Dadar on Wednesday.
The passenger shot a video of the driver using objectionable language against him and Thackeray. He later posted the video, which shows the number plate of the autorickshaw, on social media, a police official said.
After the video went viral, in which the driver is purportedly seen arguing with the passenger and using a word against Raj Thackeray that the MNS men found objectionable, party workers traced the autorickshaw man and called him to the party office in Mulund and attacked him. A vidoe of the attack was shot.
In the second video, an office-bearer of the MNS is seen slapping the driver and forcing him to apologise to Thackeray and his son, Amit. They also forced him to say "Jai Maharashtra".
A police official said no complaint had been lodged.
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