Maharashtra: BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad booked in SC/ST case for abusing woman

Police has booked Maharashtra BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad in a Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act case on Sunday on the complaint of a villager a police official said on SundayBJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad had pumped six bullets into Kalyan Shiv Sena leader Mahesh Gaikwad and also injured the latters associate Rahul Patil late Friday night inside the cabin of the Hill Line police stations senior inspector in Ulhasnagar in Thane district The threetime Kalyan East MLA has been charged with attempt to murder and other offences in the caseldquoOn the complaint of a resident of Dwarli village on Saturday Ganpat Gaikwad and seven others have been charged under sections of the Indian Penal Code and SCST Prevention of Atrocities Actrdquo a Hill Line police station official saidAs per the complainant she was subjected to castebased abuse by Ganpat Gaikwad and the others on January 31 ldquoA probe into the complaint of the woman who is a land owner is underwayrdquo the station house officer of Hill Line police station saidMeanwhile Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray Sunday claimed a gang war has broken out in the Maharashtra alliance government and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should understand that the state BJP unit has weakened due to the induction of leaders into it by breaking other partiesThe former state chief ministers remarks came two days after an incident of firing by an MLA of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on a local Shiv Sena leader belonging to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde camp at a police station in Ulhasnagar area of Thane districtThe MLA Ganpat Gaikwad 56 has been arrested Shiv Senas Kalyan unit chief Mahesh Gaikwad 40 who was attacked was in a critical conditionAddressing a rally at Sawantwadi in Maharashtras Sindhudurg district Thackeray said the previous ShivSena BJP government in the 1990s had broken the back of underworld gangs in MumbaiBut now in the present government a gang war has broken out The third gang is neck deep in Rs 70000 crore irrigation scam and hence has no time to raise its head Thackeray alleged without naming any ally in the Eknath Shindeled governmentAlso read Chhagan Bhujbals resignation not accepted Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra FadnavisPM Modi should understand that the state BJP unit has weakened due to the trend of breaking other parties and the induction of leaders into its fold he claimedThackeray said he was not opposed to any individual but was against lies and dictatorshipThe country does not need a government with absolute majority but a regime of the INDIA bloc an alliance formed by various opposition parties which will take everyone along he said ldquoIf the BJP wins again in the Lok Sabha polls due in a few months there will be no Republic Day next year he claimedThackeray said PM Modi is making frequent trips to MaharashtraldquoEvery time he comes he takes away something from the state to Gujarat The Navy Day was celebrated on the Konkan coast in Sindhudurg The PM came here and then I hear that the submarine tourism project which I cleared when I was the chief minister is being shifted to Gujaratrdquo he claimedNotably the state government has clarified there is no such plan to shift the projectldquoEvery time the PM comes here he takes away something He did not come here when the region suffered two cyclones Tauktae and Nisarg He gave no financial assistancerdquo Thackeray claimedDo we need such a PM he asked the gathering With inputs from PTI