Congress MLA Nitesh Rane, supporters attack Maharashtra engineer with mud
New Delhi: Congress MLA Nitesh Rane has been caught on camera covering a government official with mud and slime and threatening him in an argument over the condition of a highway in Maharashtra, in an egregious display of arrogance.
Nitesh Rane and his supporters had gone to "inspect" road repairs on a stretch of the Mumbai-Goa highway when they attacked a road sub-engineer, Prakash Shedekar.
#WATCH: Congress MLA Nitesh Narayan Rane and his supporters throw mud on engineer Prakash Shedekar at a bridge near Mumbai-Goa highway in Kankavali, when they were inspecting the potholes-ridden highway. They later tied him to the bridge over the river. pic.twitter.com/B1XJZ6Yu6z
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The group lashed out at the official, alleging that people had to suffer muddy and potholed roads routinely.
"People are suffering it daily... Now, you also experience it," the team said, grabbing Mr Shedekar, tipping buckets full of slime on Shedekar and even manhandling him.
Rane is seen questioning the mud-covered official aggressively. "Who has given you the right to sink Kankavli under slime," the politician and his supporters say before pushing him around.
At one point, the Congress lawmaker and his men are seen trying to tie Mr Shedekar to a half-built bridge, apparently to "teach him a lesson".
Videos of the incident have been widely circulated on social media and have drawn disgust and condemnation.
Rane is the son of former Chief Minister Narayan Rane, who appeared to downplay the incident.