In an embarrassing incident for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Dilip Shekhawat, he was greeted with a garland of shoes in Madhya Pradesh’s Nagada on Monday while campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls.
In a video of the incident, a man can be seen greeting Shekhawat with a garland of shoes. On realising that they weren’t flowers, the MLA throws the garland away in anger and gets into a fight with the man, shoving him.
#WATCH: A man greets BJP MLA and candidate Dilip Shekhawat with
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a garland of shoes in Madhya Pradesh's Nagada. (19.11.2018) pic.twitter.com/LmYMAaP8Me
Shekhawat is a sitting MLA from the Nagada-Khachrod Assembly seat. His name featured in the first list of the 177 candidates the BJP released for the upcoming polls.