Congress MP Nirupam arrested in Mumbai for rioting
Mumbai:
Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam and party's candidate Bharat Parekh were arrested by the city
police on Thursday under charges of unlawful assembly and rioting at Charkop in
Suburban Kandivali. Both Nirupam and Parekh were later released on bail. Parekh
is Congress candidate from the Charkop Assembly constituency. On Wednesday night,
a scuffle broke out between Congress workers and activists from other political
parties when the later objected to Nirupam and Parekh's presence at the Laljipada
slums in Charkop post midnight. Nirupam, however, refuted the allegation saying
that he had visited the slums after receiving information that certain leaders
of other parties threatened people to vote against Parekh.
