Madhusudan Mistry arrested for vandalising Modi posters in Vadodara

Congress candidate from Vadodara, Madhusudan Mistry was arrested today on charges of vandalising.

He was detained after vandalising BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s posters along with other Congress workers. Times Now reported Mistry was taken to court after he was arrested.

After Mistry was detained Vadodara DCP Dipankar Trivedi said, “Mistry and other Congress workers have been detained after they tried to paste his posters on a advertisement kiosk installed on an electricity pole on road dividers.”

Narendra Rawat, the earlier Congress candidate from Vadodara whose candidature was withdrawn after BJP declared that their prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi would fight from this Lok Sabha seat, and Leader of Opposition in Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC)’s Chandrakant Kastur were also detained along with Mistry and other party workers

“Mistry or any other Congress leader has not taken any permission for the programme,” said Trivedi, adding that further course of action will be decided after looking into the videography of the incident.

“Mistry tried to climb on one pole of road divider for pasting his poster over Narendra Modi’s poster, but he was prevented by the police,” a Congress worker said.

“Police also took away his ladder which was used to replace Modi’s poster,” he said further.

Congress workers shouted slogans against Modi and BJP party and alleged that he (Modi) was responsible for not allowing their party candidate to put up his posters.

Talking to PTI, Mistry alleged that police and district administration were acting in a partisan manner and prevented putting up of his posters at advertisements kiosks on city roads.

Mistry also said that when a policeman came to him, he demanded his identity card but the cop refused to show it.

Earlier, Mistry along with other Congress workers sat on a dharna at city Congress office in Dandiya Bazar area of Vadodara city.

with PTI inputs