Mah govt to submit report on 'manhandling' of farmer in 2 days

The Maharashtra government will submit a report to the Legislative Council in two days regarding the alleged "manhandling" of a farmer by security staff in Mantralaya (state secretariat) on Thursday.
Farmer Rameshwar Bhusare, who hails from Ghatshendra village in Kannad taluka of Aurangabad district, was beaten up by policemen on duty when he had come to meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
As soon as the House assembled for the day after the Question Hour, senior NCP leader Sunil Tatkare, speaking on the adjournment motion, said that an "assault" on one farmer is an insult to the entire farming community.
"The assault would have been captured on CCTV cameras. We demand that the entire incident should be out before people. This is a heartless government. Instead of reassuring farmers that their problems would be solved, it is indulging in violence against them," Tatkare said.

Taking a dig at Shiv Sena members, he said the party continues to back the BJP despite its chief Uddhav Thackeray criticising the government everyday.
Supporting the adjournment motion, Congress group leader Sharad Ranpise said that when the Opposition members met the farmer, there was blood smeared on his shirt and trousers and his face required seven stitches.

"Security persons, in the garb of taking him to meet the Agriculture minister, took him in the lift and beat him up. They held his arms and legs while one policeman choked him with his own 'gamcha' (cloth)" he said.
Ranpise termed as "shameful" the "blatant lying" of the police person on duty in the police station to the legislators, when they asked him about the farmer's whereabouts.

"We were first told he has been taken to the Court but we later realised he was locked up in the same police station in a dark cell. The police were not even ready to lodge his FIR," Ranpise said.
Responding to the Opposition members, Parliamentary Affairs minister Girish Bapat said that the government has taken this issue seriously and has formed a committee to look into the incident and its report would be submitted in two days.
Chairman Ramraje Nimbalkar then directed the government to present before the House, the committee report on March 29, when the House resumes.

Bhusare claimed to have incurred losses to the tune of Rs 10 lakh during hailstorm in 2015 but was refused any compensation from the authorities and had come to Mantralaya to meet Fadnavis in this regard.