Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has received a “death threat” on social media, following this Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis reacted to the report. BJP’s Fadnavis said, “Threatening any leader or overstepping the bounds of civility while expressing themselves on social media will not be tolerated”. Fadnavis assured that the police will take action as per the law.
On Friday, Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule said that she received a WhatsApp message from his father. Sule told the media, “He (Sharad Pawar) has been threatened through a website”. “Such actions are low-level politics and this should stop,” she said.
Sule, a delegation of other NCP leaders met Mumbai police chief Vivek Phansalkar demanding action.
Sule told the police that 82-year-old Pawar received a message on Facebook that read “he will meet the same fate as (Narendra) Dabholkar soon”.
Narendra Dabholkar, who fought against superstitious beliefs, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants during his morning walk in Pune on August 20, 2013.
Sule submitted printouts of the screenshots of the death threat to the police.
“The police are in the process of registering an FIR in this connection at South Region Cyber police station,” NCP representative said.
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Updated: 09 Jun 2023, 02:28 PM IST