Surat: Limbayat MLA Sangita Patil landed in an unpalatable soup by issuing a controversial advice to her party workers asking them to flash their party identity cards if they are caught during night curfew.
A video that has gone viral on social media platforms shows Patil openly advising the page presidents and workers at a gathering of the party members at Limbayat on Sunday night, to use their identity cards whenever necessary during the restricted hours. “The BJP membership card has been given to the nominated members and the page presidents. If you are caught by the police, you have to tell them that I am the page president or BJP member,” said Patil, adding that if the cops still did not relent with the card, the members are free to call her up.
While repeated attempts to reach Patil for her comments went in vain, BJP city president Niranjan Zanzmera told TOI: “I have not seen the video, but if she has spoken something derogatory then I will seek her reply.”