Maharashtra Assembly Polls 2024: Anil Deshmukh discharged from hospital, says will teach lesson to BJP

Nagpur: Former Maharashtra home minister and senior NCP (SP) leader Anil Deshmukh, injured in a stone attack on his car a day earlier, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, Deshmukh said the BJP will be taught a lesson.

"I want to tell BJP that you can pelt stones or fire bullets on Anil Deshmukh. I will not die nor will we leave you before teaching you a lesson," he said.

Deshmukh suffered a head injury when some unidentified persons hurled stones at his car on Monday night when he was returning to Katol from attending a poll meeting in Nagpur district.

Police have registered a case against four unidentified persons on charges of attempt to murder.

The former home minister was initially rushed to the Katol Civil Hospital before being shifted to a private hospital in Nagpur, police said.

Anil Deshmukh's son Salil Deshmukh is contesting from the Katol assembly constituency on the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) ticket against BJP's Charansingh Thakur.

Assembly Elections 2024 | The Maharashtra Assembly polls will take place against the backdrop of a fractured political landscape in the western state where the Shiv Sena and NCP will be going up against the Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar factions, even as the BJP and Congress try to make their mark. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, the JMM faces a new challenge after Hemant Soren's recent arrest and Champai, a longstanding party member, joining the BJP. The Haryana election resulted in a shock loss for Congress, which was looking to galvanize on the Lok Sabha poll performance, while J&K also saw the grand old party eventually stepping away from the cabinet, with Omar Abdullah's JKNC forming government. It remains to be seen if the upcoming polls help BJP cement its position further or provide a fillip to I.N.D.I.A. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.

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