Aurangabad, March 22: Maharashtra Minister of state for food and civil supplies, Abdul Sattar engaged in a brawl with a party activist during a meeting.
The minister had come to attend a meeting held to forge an alliance between Congress, NCP and Pragati Aghadi, launched by Shiv Sena rebel independent MLA Pradeep Jaiswal, for Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections scheduled on April 11.
The activists of all the three parties, who were also present in the meeting, created a ruckus at the seat sharing formula and one of the attendees, who claimed to be a Congress activist, engaged in verbal duel with Abdul Sattar.
The man, identified as Mohammed Nisar, was first assaulted by Abdul Sattar’s PA and later by the minister.
Abdul Sattar, who was elected on Congress ticket from Sillod assembly constituency, later told reporters that Nisar is not a party activist and he did not know him.
“I do not know the man either. He is not a Congress activist and I am going to lodge a police complaint against him,” Sattar said.
The meeting was attended by Aurangabad district’s guardian minister Radha Kishan Vikhe-Patil, Maharashtra Minister for Heavy Industries Rajendra Darda, Jaiswal and NCP leader Munaf Hakim. It was resolved in the meeting that Congress would contest on 53 seats, NCP would get 30 seats and Pragati Aghadi would contest 16 seats in municipal elections.
—–PTI