The Aurangabad police on Sunday filed a first information report (FIR) against Shiv Sena leader Chandrakant Khaire for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The case was registered at Satara police station based on a complaint lodged by Rajendra Janjal, the district unit chief of the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction), he said.
Khaire, a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency, is a loyalist of Uddhav Thackeray. The FIR said that he had made objectionable comments against the CM while speaking to media persons. In his interview with a regional news channel, Khaire said that had Shinde's mentor and late Sena leader Anand Dighe been alive, he would have thrashed Shinde after hanging him upside down for being a traitor, it added. In his complaint, Janjal said that Khaire had passed objectionable remarks against the CM on earlier occasions as well.