Shinde Sena MLA who announced prize to cut Rahul Gandhi’s tongue stirs fresh row

Days after announcing a reward of Rs 11 lakh to anyone who will “chop off the tongue” of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad again sparked a fresh row, saying he will “bury any Congress dog” if they come to a government programme in his area.
Talking to reporters on September 16, Gaikwad said that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde – who heads the Shiv Sena – will attend a programme about the government’s flagship ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’ for women in his district and he will “bury Congress dogs” if they try to enter the programme.
“If any Congress dog tries to enter my programme, I will bury them then and there,” Gaikwad said.
Earlier, the MLA had announced a Rs 11 lakh reward to anyone who “chops off” Rahul Gandhi’s tongue for his remarks on scrapping the reservation system.
“I have made the statement. If I have not apologised, why should the Chief Minister do so? Of the 140 crore people in the country, 50 per cent of the population gets reservation. And I am firm on the statement I made about the person who spoke about removing reservation,” Gaikwad said, when asked about the controversy.
The Maharashtra Police registered a case against him over the remarks about the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha.
In August, a video of a policeman washing his car went viral on social media. Gaikwad later claimed the policeman cleaned it on his own after vomiting inside.
In February, Gaikwad claimed to have hunted a tiger in 1987 and said he wore its tooth around his neck. The forest department then sent the tooth for forensic identification, and charged the MLA under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.