People’s representatives must behave with restraint and work within the framework of law, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday after a BJP MLA from Thane district slapped a junior civil engineer working for the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC).
On Tuesday, Geeta Jain, a first-time BJP legislator from the Mira-Bhayander constituency, had assaulted a junior engineer working on a contractual basis with the MBMC over an issue of allegedly razing an “illegal structure”.
In a minute-long video which went viral on social media, Ms. Jain is seen scolding two engineers. She is then seen grabbing the shirt collar of one of them and slapping him for razing some structures that reportedly caused the occupants, including children, to stay on the roads.
