MLA Sanjay Bansode.Wikipedia
Latur: A man urinated outside the local office of former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Sanjay Bansode in Latur district on Wednesday to protest denial of a ticket to his father for the next month's Zilla Parishad (ZP) polls.
A video of the incident in Udgir tehsil has gone viral on social media.
The protest was triggered after Madhukar Ekurkekar, a long-time social and political worker from the Nideban area in Udgir, was denied candidature by the NCP for the February 5 ZP polls.
Alleging injustice by the party leadership, his son, Nitin Ekurkekar, expressed his outrage by urinating outside Bansode's office. The man shared a video of the protest on his social media handle, but as it created a controversy, he deleted the clip.
Supporters of Madhukar Ekurkekar, who was seeking a ticket to contest Nideban Zilla Parishad polls, claimed that despite years of dedicated grassroots work, he was sidelined by the party.
A dozen ZPs and 125 Panchayat Samitis across Maharashtra will go to polls on February 5 and results will be announced two days later.