A Member of Parliament from Maharashtra and a legislator were assaulted late Sunday night by villagers opposed to the up gradation of vill...
A Member of Parliament from Maharashtra and a legislator were assaulted late Sunday night by villagers opposed to the up gradation of villages and local councils into a municipal corporation, police said Monday.
According to an official of Vasai Police station, the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) MP Baliram Jadhav and party legislator Hitendra Thakur were moving around the Wagholi village, near Nalla Sopara in Thane district, trying to convince villagers to support the civic upgradation proposal.
However, defiant villagers attacked their vehicle and assaulted the two law-makers with stones and sticks, injuring them badly, police said.
They were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment even as the villagers went on a rampage and destroyed over a dozen vehicles and some shops nearby.
The entire Vasai-Nalla Sopara belt Monday observed a spontaneous shutdown since midnight with all shops, commercial establishments, educational institutions, public and private modes of transport closed for the day.
