Sena calls for bandh: Key developments in Ravindra Gaikwad-Air India fracas

Shiv Sena gears up to back MP in Parliament; Gaikwad says won't appear before media till Wednesday

Shiv Sena on Monday called for a bandh in MP Ravindra Gaikwad's constituency of Osmanabad, Maharashtra, after he was put on a 'no-fly list' by various airlines for assaulting an Air India (AI) staffer in Delhi last week. 

"We have called for the Osmanabad bandh to protest the humiliation of our leader by the airlines who have denied him flying rights," Sena district vice president Kamlakar Chavan told news agency PTI. Gaikwad had abused and assaulted a 60-year-old duty manager of AI, R Sukumar, with slippers for not being able to fly business class despite having boarded an all-economy Pune-New