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Opposition protests outside Mah Assembly over Shiv Sena MLA’s assault on canteen staff

Mumbai, July 16 (UNI) Wearing 'lungi, baniyan,' legislators of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) staged a protest today outside the Maharashtra Assembly to condemn the alleged assault on a hostel canteen employee by Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) MLA Sanjay Gaikwad and the inaction over the incident.
Raising slogans like 'Chaddi-Banian gang, down down!' and 'this hooligan government must go,' several opposition MLAs appeared at the protest site dressed in towels and vests (banian), drawing public and media attention to their symbolic gesture against the incident.
The protest erupted after a video went viral in which MLA Sanjay Gaikwad, a legislator from the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, allegedly stormed into the canteen at the MLA hostel dressed only in a towel and vest and physically assaulted a canteen employee over alleged poor quality of food served to him.
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