Shiv Sena workers on Sunday vandalised a hotel in Mumbai’s Khar area where stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s show with a ‘gaddar’ (traitor) jibe at Deputy CM Eknath Shinde was filmed. The vandals ransacked the Hotel Unicontinental in the Khar area and sought an FIR to be lodged against Kamra.
According to a police official, the party workers reached the hotel's auditorium after a video of Kamra’s jibe against Shinde went viral on social media. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut also posted the video on X, saying, “Kunal Ka Kamal.”
Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel lodged an FIR at MIDC police station against comedian Kunal Kamra for his remarks on Maharashtra DCM Eknath Shinde.
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"We have filed an FIR against Kunal Kamra for his comments against our leader and Maharashtra's DCM Eknath Shinde. We have demanded quick action against him. I want to tell him to apologise to Eknath Shinde within two days otherwise Shiv Sainiks will not let him move about freely in Mumbai. If he is seen anywhere in public, we will paint his face black... We will take up this issue in the assembly and request our state's home minister to order action against him as soon as possible," said Murji Patel.
Kamra taunted Shinde using a modified version of a Hindi song from the film “Dil To Pagal Hai”, eliciting laughter from the audience. Sena MP Naresh Mhaske warned Kamra that he will be chased by Sena workers throughout the country. “You will be forced to flee India,” he said in a video message. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and MLA Aaditya Thackeray, on Monday night, called the attack on the studio cowardly.
In his post on X, Thackeray said, "Mindhe’s (read Shinde) coward gang breaks the comedy show stage where comedian @kunalkamra88 put out a song on Eknath mindhe, which was 100 per cent true. Only an insecure coward would react to a song by someone."
“By the way, law and order in the state? Another attempt to undermine the CM and Home Minister by Eknath Mindhe,” he said. Thackeray always uses the Marathi word “Mindhe" while referring to Eknath Shinde to taunt him, as it means subservient.