Shiv Sena's Ravindra Gaikwad is just one of our MPs who shame India
Shiv Sena parliamentarian Ravindra Gaikwad is in the news for attacking an Air India staffer with a slipper and then bragging about it. But this is not the first time Gaikwad has found himself on the wrong side of the law.
My Neta, the portal which provides criminal and financial background information on candidates, lists nearly a dozen charges, from culpable homicide to rioting to criminal intimidation that have been filed against the MP from Maharashtra's Osmanabad.
Gaikwad was in the eye of a row in 2014 for allegedly trying to force-feed a Muslim caterer during Ramzan over the quality of chapatis served at the Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi.
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| There are numerous instances when our parliamentarians have brought shame to the country with their unruly behaviour. |
But the Sena MP is not the only only to show such outright offensive and remorseless behaviour. There are numerous instances when our parliamentarians have shamed the country with their unruly behaviour. Take a look:
Anant Kumar Hegde
January 2017: BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde kicked and thrashed two doctors and a worker of a private hospital in Sirsi for not attending to his mother on a priority basis in January 2017.
Vitthal Radadiya
March 2016: A video clip purportedly showing Radadiya kicking an elderly man at a religious event went viral on social media. This incident happened in Dhoraji, a town in Rajkot district where the MP was the chief guest at a bhajan programme to raise funds for a gaushala (cowshed).
The video clip showed the MP, dressed in his trademark white, sitting on the stage. Suddenly, he moves towards the barricade and starts kicking the elderly man for no apparent reason. The man, who appears to be a fakir, falls at the MP's feet, but Radadiya goes on kicking him.
October 2002: Radadiya was earlier at the centre of a controversy in 2012 when a video had gone viral in which he was purportedly seen wielding gun at a toll booth staff at Karjan near Vadodara. In that video, Radadiya, who was then a Congress MP, was seen coming out of his car with a rifle in his hand and threatening to kill the toll booth staff when he asked for his ID proof.
Sasikala Pushpa
July 2016: Sasikala Pushpa, an expelled AIADMK MP, slapped DMK parliamentarian Tiruchi Siva after he refused to travel in the same aircraft.
P Mithun Reddy
November 2015: YSR Congress Party MP P Mithun Reddy 2015 slapped and assaulted an Air India station Manager at Tirupati airport in Andhra Pradesh after he refused to give him and his kin boarding passes after the boarding for their flight had closed.
Pappu Yadav
June 2015: Expelled Rashtriya Janata Dal MP from Bihar, Pappu Yadav, allegedly misbehaved with a Jet Airways airhostess on a flight from Patna after she asked the lawmaker not to throw the leftover food in the aisle. The incident happened when the plane from Patna was on its way to New Delhi, airline sources said.
A host of Shiv Sena MPs
2014: Apparently unaware that he was being filmed, a lawmaker from the Shiv Sena forced a roti down the throat of a catering supervisor at the Maharashtra government's official guest house in Delhi. The man, Arshad Zubair, was fasting for Ramzan. The incident took place when 11 members of Parliament from Maharashtra — Sanjay Raut (Rajya Sabha), Anandrao Adsul (Amravati), Rajan Vichare (Thane), Arvind Sawant (Mumbai-South), Hemant Godse (Nashik), Krupal Tumane (Ramtek), Ravindra Gaikwad (Osmanabad), Vinayak Raut (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Shivaji Adhalrao Patil (Shirur), Rahul Shewale (Mumbai-South Central) and Shrikant Shinde (Kalyan) — had visited the Maharashtra Sadan.
M Jagannadham
2009: Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader M Jagannadham, who was a former Congress MP, slapped a bank manager in 2009 for not giving him satisfactory answers on loan disbursement.
Uma Bharti 2008: Union minister Uma Bharti, who's known for her firebrand politics, slapped a party worker in 2008 and was caught on a TV camera doing so.