No need to discipline MP who assaulted 60-year-old: Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who assaulted R Sukumar, a 60-year-old Air India employee on a Pune-New Delhi flight on Thursday and later boasted about it, received a “dressing down” from party chief Uddhav Thackeray, senior Shiv Sena leaders said on Friday.

“We have taken serious note of the incident. Uddhav Thackeray spoke to him and gave him a dressing down,” Anil Desai, Rajya Sabha MP, told HT. Earlier on Friday, Gaikwad met with Desai in New Delhi and updated him on the details of Thursday’s incident.

The dressing down from Thackeray could be the extent of the party’s action against Gaikwad. Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said that Thackeray hadn’t summoned the MP for disciplinary action and that he didn’t in fact need to be disciplined.

Raut said, “Firstly, he has not been summoned by the party chief. This is not a matter that calls for disciplinary action. Ravi is an educated person. He has been an MLA for many years and is now an MP. He has been travelling in planes for many years now and this is the first time such an incident has happened. The matter should be probed from both sides.”View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider

Raut said the party did not plan to take any action against Gaikwad. “Let the law take its own course. But an FIR should also be filed against Air India,” he said.

Source:-Hindustantimes

Gaikwad-Air India episode shows that netas who assault public servants do so out of a sense of entitlement

Member of Parliament Ravindra Gaikwad’s barbaric assault of an Air India staffer should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his party, the Shiv Sena. The party rose to prominence in Mumbai in the 1960s by assaulting people its founder, the late Bal Thackeray, characterised as outsiders taking jobs away from the Marathi manoos. For decades, Sainiks took the law into their own hands with impunity, beating up people, vandalising their property, even digging up the pitch at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium because Thackeray had decreed that the Pakistan cricket team should not play there. Given that the Sena has been getting away with, and even profiting from, such behaviour, it’s not surprising that Gaikwad was unrepentant, even boasting that he hit the AI employee 25 times with his footwear. But there is no way such behaviour can be justified whatever the provocation. And what was his complaint? He didn’t get to travel business class on an all-economy flight.

This sense of entitlement is, however, not confined to the Shiv Sena but is rampant across party lines among people who call themselves public servants. A couple of days after Gaikwad’s assault came the news that a former Congress MP abused a police officer in Hyderabad because he wasn’t allowed to speak to the media at a point reserved for sitting MPs and MLAs. Misuse and abuse of their powers by elected representatives has reached epidemic proportions across the country, the euphemism for it is VIP culture. We’ve become inured to images of people carrying the footwear of their leaders or to goons pushing people around in the name of ensuring respect to self-styled leaders. Government employees are the most vulnerable – from across the country come reports of so-called leaders barging into offices to abuse and slap officials purportedly for not doing their duty. More often it’s for actually having done their duty.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider

Source:-Hindustantimes

Tanmay Bhat, Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar: Here's everything you don't need to know

Tanmay Bhat's parodies of Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar has, to use a technical millennial term, broke the internet.

If like the rest of the world, you're wondering what the fuss is about, here's what really went down:

Bhat, a comedian, who had earlier posted a monologue on feminism, presented a short skit on Snapchat last week. Using the app's face-swap feature (you can unfortunately swap your face with anyone's or anything's), he mimicked Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar in a video titled Sachin v/s Lata Civil War. Starting with imitating Sachin, Bhat spouted lines such as "Virat is good with the bat, and the ladies”, and moves on to 'roasting' or as some people from the internet like to say, insulting Lata Mangeshkar (he says she is 5,000 years old). He also imitates Lata making fun of Sachin saying that her fans will mourn her by singing her songs at the singer's funeral. The video ends with a lot of jibes and insults in Marathi.

Bhat then took to Twitter to further voice his opinions.
But even before he posted the video, Bhat reportedly put out a disclaimer as saying that he loved both the icons.

As the controversy grew, the Shiv Sena and the BJP called for police action against Tanmay Bhat. Shiv Sena even asked the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take strict action against the comedy collective All India Bakc*** (AIB) and Bhat for allegedly seeking to vitiate social harmony through videos on Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar. The BJP's Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar also requested that a police complaint be filed against Tanmay Bhat and AIB.

The MNS meanwhile said that it will lodge an FIR against Tanmay Bhat and demanded that the video uploaded by him be removed immediately.

The Mumbai police has initiated a probe following the complaints. DCP (Operations) Sangramsingh Nishandar said the inquiry is being conducted by special branch of the city police. The inquiry was initiated after Shelar complained about the issue to city police chief Datta Padsalgikar.

Sachin's wife, Anjali Tendulkar also voiced her opinion on Twitter.

Source: http://www.firstpost.com