Nagpur: BJP leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Vikas Mahatme and member of legislative council (MLC) and city party chief Pravin Datke, were booked on Wednesday for taking part in the celebrations after the party-led NDA victory in the Bihar elections. The alliance partners proved the exit polls wrong by crossing the majority mark in a tense electoral battle.
Mahatme, Datke, MLAs Vikas Kumbhare and Krushna Khopde along with their 40-45 supporters had assembled at their city office at Ganeshpeth by ignoring state orders against large gatherings due to the pandemic.
Corporators like Bunty Kukde, also chairperson of the civic body’s transport committee, Pramod Chikle and several office bearers of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha, too, were present at the venue.
Ganeshpeth police invoked section 135 of the Bombay Police Act along with provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and the Disaster Management Act, 2005, under which state had prohibited assembly of people.