“I cracked the skull of Nishu’s father. Do you know which section this crime attracts? Section 307. He needed 60 stitches. The man who was about to die was being taken away in an ambulance. His daughter was standing outside the police station and saying that if her father did not get justice, she would consume poison and die. But I was not even jailed. The world should know this. I was roaming around freely the entire night.”
When Hindutva fanatic Swatantra Bhardwaj said this on a podcast, he was not merely recounting an alleged assault, he was boasting about it, while pointing to his purported proximity to power. In the same podcast, Bhardwaj claimed BJP cabinet ministers Kapil Mishra and Chirag Paswan, as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were his “bade bhaiyas” (big brothers), and hence there was no action against him.
