Watch: How Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad assaulted AI staffer

In the 82-second video, the Shiv Sena MP was caught assaulting and abusing an elderly official of Air India.

New Delhi, March 24: A video footage of the attack on a 60-year-old Air India staffer by Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Ravindra Gaikwad has emerged. You can watch the video below:

The entire incident reported on Thursday has shocked the nation. The episode of assault on a public official on duty revealed how a few of our 'VIPs' misbehave, hurt and humiliate common citizens.

On Thursday, an unapologetic Gaikwad boasted in front of camera how he beat an elderly AI staffer 25 times with his slippers for not assigning him a seat in the business class in one of the flights run by the public carrier.

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In the 83-second video clip, we can see fleeting images of the assault on a duty manager inside the aircraft. In the footage, an AI stewardess was also seen requesting Gaikwad not to misbehave as he was a "role model" and a "democratic leader".

"Aap fenk denge toh murder case ho jayega na, sir (If you throw him down, it will be a murder case, sir)," said the stewardess. In response, the MP said, "Hone do na, bahut cases hai hamare upar (Let it happen, there are many cases against me." "You are our representative, you are our democratic leader, we have elected you," the stewardess added.

Gaikwad,57, is a Lok Sabha member from the Osmanabad constituency in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, and no stranger to controversies. He was in the eye of a row in 2014 for allegedly trying to force-feed a Muslim caterer during the fasting month of Ramzan over the quality of chapatis served at the Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi.

He has various criminal charges against him which include voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servants from duty, criminal intimidation and rioting among others. He was twice elected to the Maharashtra Assembly before going to the Lok Sabha in 2014.

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