Maharashtra news: Journalist Nikhil Wagle's car attacked by BJP workers in Pune, opposition calls it ‘goonda raj’
NDA likely to get 300 seats in north, INDIA block strong in south: Opinion Poll Television visuals showed BJP workers mobbing the car at Khandoji Baba Chowk and vandalising it, resulting in the vehicle's windscreen and side panes getting damaged. Bharat Ratna 2024: India's top civilian award conferred on 5 eminent persons Wagle managed to reach the venue of the event under police protection. Addressing the 'Nirbhay Bano' event, Wagle said, "I forgive all those who attacked me.
I have been attacked six times earlier and this was the seventh." Workers from the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi were engaged in a standoff outside the Rashtra Seva Dal premises earlier, with protesters saying they would now allow Wagle to speak at the event. Earlier in the day, a case was registered here against Wagle for allegedly making offensive remarks against the PM Modi and Advani. "Nikhil Wagle has been booked under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 500 (defamation) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Vishrambaug police station.
We are probing the matter further," the official said. LK Advani to be conferred Bharat Ratna: PM Modi Senior BJP leader Sunil Deodhar had filed a complaint against the 64-year-old journalist at the Vishrambaug police station. The senior scribe made the alleged defamatory remarks on social media platform X against Modi and Advani after the Centre announced that the latter would be conferred with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour.
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