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Shinde Sena MLA defends slap, says South Indians destroyed Maharashtra with ladies dance bars

Mumbai, July 10 (UNI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad, who brutally beat up the canteen manager for serving stale food at the Akashwani MLAs' Hostel canteen, today defended slapping a hostel canteen manager, saying that he has no regrets for his action.
"It was only after my beating that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cancelled the licence of the canteen which served substandard food to the people. My method may have been wrong, but my reaction was not wrong," he said and questioned why the opposition is so fond of the MLA hostel canteen manager who is a South Indian.
"The opposition has criticised me for the beating, but I must tell them that Maharashtra was destroyed by people from South India. All the ladies service bars and dance bars which Shetty people from South India run, ruined the youth and spoiled the culture of Maharashtra. Whatever I did, I did for the people of Maharashtra. So why is the opposition so fond of South Indians," Gaikwad asked opposition MLAs.
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