Throwing ink is better than throwing stones, it's 'non-violent', says Shiv Sena's Team Ink

Mumbai: These are the six men accused of attacking former BJP leader Sudheendra Kulkarni and painting his face black in Mumbai Monday. Gajanan Patil, 49, tour operator Prakash Husbe, 28, medical representative Ashok Waghmare, 47, security supervisor Samadhan Jugdhav, 34, event organiser Venkatesh Nair, 38, medical representative Dinesh Prasad, 32, daily wage labourer [caption id=“attachment_2465862” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Sudheendra Kulkarni after the ink attack/ PTI[/caption] Each of these six men is proud of the ink attack on Kulkarni for reasons varying from “patriotism” to “valid method of protest.” One of them defends it saying it is non violent and much milder than throwing stones. “This is not the first time the Sena has protested against Pakistani events in the city. Remember the time we dug up the Wankhede pitch before an India-Pakistan match? I wasn’t a part of the protest then, but that is exactly what I feel like today,” says Gajanan Patil in the special report. Unfazed by the Shiv Sena protest and the ink blot, the organisers went ahead with the launch of former Pakistan Foreign Minister Ahmed Kasuri’s book Neither a Hawk, Nor a Dove at a function in Mumbai. Click on this link to read the story.