MNS workers burn auto rickshaw in Mumbai with new permit; Would Raj Thackeray be booked for inciting violence?

The rickshaw was burnt adjacent to the Andheri RTO on Thursday night. The hooligans of MNS stopped the rickshaw on the road and forced the driver to vacate the rickshaw.

Written by: Mohammed Uzair Shaikh

Updated: March 11, 2016, 11:23 AM IST

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Mumbai, Mar 11: Workers of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) burnt down an auto-rickshaw in Mumbai’s prime locality of Andheri. The gruesome incident comes a day after party supremo Raj Thackeray instructed his cadres to set ablaze every rickshay in the city which has been granted permits lately by the state government led by the coalition of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and SHiv Sena.

The rickshaw was burnt adjacent to the Andheri RTO on Thursday night. The hooligans of MNS stopped the rickshaw on the road and forced the driver to vacate the rickshaw. Eye-witnesses claim that unidentified miscreants wore MNS flags round their necks and they raised slogans of Jai Maharashtra and Raj Thackeray Zindabad while burning the rickshaw. (ALSO READ: Raj Thackeray says MNS will torch autos with new permits)

Police stations across Mumbai have been alerted to keep an eye on the miscreants of MNS. Those who burned the rickshaw in Andheri fled the spot immediately before police could arrive.

Meanwhile, the office of BJP MLA Yogesh Sagar was also vandalized by MNS workers on Thursday. Sagar had criticized Thackeray for intimidating the poverty-stricken rickshawalas and instead demanded him to come on the streets and deliver those things which he says in his irresponsible speeches. (ALSO READ: MNS terror in Mumbai: Raj Thackeray’s men attack office of BJP MLA Yogesh Sagar (Video)

Maharashtra government, on Thursday, was looking for legal options to corner Thackeray. The speech given by the right-wing leader on the 10th year foundation day of MNS, where he urged partymen to burn down rickshaws was being analyzed to ascertain whether it incited any kind of violence, especially against the state.

With the burning of the auto-rickshaw in Andheri, the charges of inciting violence could fit against the Thackeray clan leader. The act of frenzied MNS workers is a direct consequence of the inflammatory speech given by Thackeray a day earlier.