
Urination incident: CM Shivraj washes feet of tribal man
BHOPAL [Maha Media]: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday (July 6), following the awful incident involving a BJP leader who was seen urinating on a tribal man's face in a viral video in Sidhi, washed the feet of victim Dashrath Rawat at the CM House in Bhopal. The CM also apologised to Rawat and said that he was pained to see the video. "I was pained to see that video. I apologise to you. People are like a God to me," said the MP CM to Rawat.
The incident had sparked a huge outrage after the video of a man urinating on a tribal man's face in MP's Sidhi surfaced on social media. The matter finally escalated and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted: "A viral video of Sidhi district has come to my notice... I have instructed the administration to arrest the culprit and take strict action and also impose NSA."
A local BJP leader named Pravesh Shukla, who was seen urinating on a person from the tribal community in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi in a video that went viral and caused widespread outrage, was taken into custody by police on early Wednesday morning. A case was registered against him under sections 294,504 IPC and SC/ST Act and reports said that the stringent NSA act was slapped on him too.
Earlier, there were dramatic scenes on Wednesday after accused BJP leader Pravesh Shukla's mother fell unconscious as bulldozer ran over her son's illegal properties and home in Sidhi on Wednesday evening. The bulldozer action followed after orders by Madhya Pradesh Home minister Narottam Mishra, who had said that the accused would face strict action.