Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad lost his calm this morning upon landing at Delhi airport after his business class ticket was changed to an economy section one. The MP hit one of the Air India staff members with his slipper while they were trying to get him to deplane.
A defiant Gaekwad proudly admitted to having hit the airline staffer and gave multiple interviews to news channels to ensure there was no doubt about it.
“Yes I hit him. He misbehaved with me. Do you expect me to hear their abuses quietly?” he said.
Gaikwad even kept a count and bragged about hitting the staffer 25 times after the employee threatened to complain about the matter to PM Narendra Modi.
Reactions poured in from across quarters dissing the snooty MP for his actions:
#ShivSena MP who hit Air India staff with slippers need not be arrested, instead, let him clean that plane’s toilet for the next one week.
— Ethirajan (@Ethirajans) March 23, 2017
Third grade animal. @airindiain staff should have hit him back with shoes and chappals.
This is actual face of #ShivSena https://t.co/EzuPQY9a7c— Er. Satya✒ (@Engineer_PKS) March 23, 2017
why MP need to travel in business class with people money? people should beat him with same slippers “Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad”
— Aadhan (@Aadhan87) March 23, 2017
Lok Sabha should unanimously move to bar him from the House. Yes, it can be done. Air India should file police case. Yes, it can be done. https://t.co/C9w3PeZAmz
— কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত (@KanchanGupta) March 23, 2017
Air India official beaten with slippers by Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad.
Enough is enough, senior citizens aren’t safe anywhere.— Yogi Chikna Nath (@Madan_Chikna) March 23, 2017
Unhappy with his seat, Shiv Sena MP slaps Air India staff. Cheap thing by #shivsena MP. https://t.co/MDtDo1ECmd via @timesofindia
— pratik naik (@naikpraths) March 23, 2017
Typical @ShivSena behaviour. Sooner BJP ends alliance the better @AUThackeray https://t.co/AbKZ3A5PnP
— Minhaz Merchant (@MinhazMerchant) March 23, 2017
Utterly shameful.. hope @AUThackeray will act! https://t.co/5SfCBDrEG8
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) March 23, 2017
Not even in economy, dirty pig Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad be airborne only after tying up with the tail of Air India plane from now on
— Debarati Majumder (@debarati_m) March 23, 2017
