Former Mumbai sheriff Nana Chudasama's office vandalised by MNS workers for 'offensive banner'

The office of former Mumbai Sheriff Nana Chudasma,  who is also the father of BJP supporter and fashion designer Shaina NC, was today vandalised by MNS goons in Mumbai for an ‘offensive banner.’ The banner placed atop the Churchgate office of Chudasma read ‘Promoting Marathi Welcomed, Diktat not Welcomed.’ According to TV reports, MNS workers found this banner put up by Nana Chudasma offensive and tore it down, following which they vandalised Chudasama’s office too.

Ransacked! Vandalised! My father Nana Chudasama's office by MNS goons against his banner #FreedomOfSpeech #Condemn pic.twitter.com/VXl0TiTdVQ

— Shaina Chudasama Munot (@ShainaNC) April 15, 2015

The move by MNS comes just a week after rival party ​Shiv Sena staged a protest outside novelist Shobha De’s building against her remarks on the Maharashtra government’s decision to make it mandatory for all multiplex owners to screen a Marathi movie during prime time. [caption id=“attachment_2197748” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screengrab from Twitter[/caption] The novelist had earlier tweeted, “Devendra ‘Diktatwala’ Fadnavis is at it again!!!From beef to movies. This is not the Maharashtra we all love. Nako! Nako! Yeh sab roko.” This was not   the first time Shiv Sena-BJP workers have protested against Shobhaa De. On 3 June, 2014, leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, had shouted slogans against Shobhaa De over her controversial tweet about Gopinath Munde’s death outside the Crossword bookstore at Mumbai’s Kemp’s Corner. Shobhaa De was supposed to attend the launch of renowned journalist Shekhar Gupta’s book ‘Anticipating India: The Best of National Interest’ at the bookstore at 6:30 pm that day. However, she cancelled her visit due to tension over her tweet about Munde’s death and his family. Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde had passed away at 7.20 am on the same day. De had tweeted, saying, “Burrey din aa gaye for the family.” “She will have to come here and apologise in front of the entire media,” BJYM worker Roshni Mishra had said, further saying that the workers would protest outside her house if she did not turn up at the book launch. One of the protesters had even suggested burning a copy of the book being launched by Shekhar Gupta as a sign of protest. De was forced to apologize on Twitter. “My deepest condolences to Munde family in their hour of grief. No offence was ever intended. Apologies for inadvertently hurting sentiments,” she had said on Twitter, after which the protest had fizzled out.