Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday used a Rajinikanth movie analogy to pick holes in circumstances surrounding the stone attack on Anil Deshmukh, the former home minister of the state, saying that the "entire story" seems a hoax to gain sympathy in the face of "imminent poll defeat".

The senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader suffered a head injury when some unidentified persons hurled stones at his car on Monday night when he was returning to Katol after attending a poll meeting in Nagpur district.