A brand new image of Independent MLA candidate from Rajasthan’s Tonk district Naresh Meena surfaced on Friday. Meena on Thursday was arrested after he slapped a sub-divisional Justice of the Peace throughout polling in full view of digital camera crews. Meena, a Congress insurgent contesting as an Independent, caught SDM Malpura, Amit Chaudhary, by his collar and slapped him, an official mentioned.
Chaudhary was making an attempt to get extra individuals to vote within the bypolls held on Wednesday. Locals had boycotted polling over a requirement to incorporate Samravta village in Uniara sub-division as a substitute of in Deoli. Meena was supporting the villagers. The incident led to pressure within the space with automobiles being torched, police being pelted with stones and 60 individuals arrested.
Arrested after violence
About 60 two-wheelers and 18 four-wheelers had been torched within the violence that erupted outdoors the polling sales space. Police personnel tried to take away Meena and his supporters who sat on a dharna in Samravta village within the Deoli-Uniara meeting constituency.
The Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS) Association known as for a pen-down strike and authorities work was affected for a while within the morning. Four instances had been registered towards Meena, together with for disrupting public work and damaging public property.
Meena was related to the Congress for lengthy, however had rebelled towards the social gathering on a number of events on being denied ballot tickets. This time additionally, he rebelled towards the Congress and entered the bypoll fray from Deoli-Uniara.
In the 2023 Rajasthan Assembly polls, Meena needed to contest the Chhabra Chhipabaraud seat in Baran, however the Congress didn’t subject him. He entered the ballot fray as an Independent. However, he misplaced the competition by about 44,000 votes and was expelled from the social gathering.
