“I am also a Maharashtrian like you... then why are you troubling me,” the girl asked the Sena members. Hurling abuses on the girl, a Sainik tried to hit her with a stick. “Tu mulgi ahes mhanun tula sodat ahey... (I am leaving you just because you are a girl),” the Shiv Sainik told the girl. Soon several other couples fled the park out of fear of getting beaten up by the charging Sena members.
The incident took place around 2.30 pm and its live coverage was also shown on some of the news channels. Sena members Bala Bhamre of Parvati area, who led the attack at Peshwe Park said, “Our party is against the Valentine’s Day celebrations, which is spoiling our culture. We had first requested the couples to stop celebrating the day and leave the park. But a boy started arguing with us. So we taught him a lesson in our style.”
He said, “The girl had thrown our saffron flag on the ground which angered our members...because she was a girl, we let her free without causing any hurt.”
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