‘Kunal Kamra will get Shiv Sena-style welcome’: Yet one more Hindu sainik threatens

Shiv Sena functionary Rahool Kanal on Monday, 31 March, mentioned comic Kunal Kamra, who kicked up a political row for taking a jibe at Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, might be welcomed in “Shiv Sena-style” when he involves Mumbai, the place he has been summoned by the police in a case registered in opposition to him.

Throughout his efficiency on the Habitat Comedy Membership on the Unicontinental Lodge within the Khar space, Kamra had referred to Shinde as a “traitor” with out naming him and went on to sing a parody targetting him.

Kanal and 11 different Shiv Sainiks had been arrested on 23 March after they ransacked the studio the place Kamra carried out his stand-up act.

Deputy chief minister Shinde is the president of the Shiv Sena.

Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Kanal mentioned the social gathering has written to the Mumbai police demanding a probe in opposition to the comic beneath the Overseas Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) over overseas funding and unaccounted cash.

“These operating away from the legislation are responsible. Kunal Kamra might be welcomed in Shiv Sena type when he involves Mumbai,” he mentioned.

“We is not going to change our stand as a result of his (Kamra’s) stand additionally stays unchanged,” Kanal mentioned, alluding to the social gathering’s previous type of staging protests.

He additional claimed that the Tamil Nadu police had been offering safety to Kamra.

The Mumbai police had summoned Kamra to look earlier than it on 31 March in a case associated to derogatory remarks in opposition to Shinde.

Final week, the Madras Excessive Court docket granted interim anticipatory bail to the comic on the situation that he execute a bond to the satisfaction of the judicial Justice of the Peace at Vanur in Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu.

Kamra had submitted he moved to Tamil Nadu from Mumbai in 2021 and was “ordinarily a resident of this state since then” and that he feared arrest by Mumbai police.