Sena workers vandalise comedy club after Kunal Kamra's joke on Eknath Shinde

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Shiv Sena workers vandalised a hotel in Mumbai where comedian Kunal Kamra performed, demanding an apology for his remarks on Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

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00:00Comedian Kunal Kamra's jokes on Eknath Shinde has sparked a row and Sena workers have vandalized

00:06the venue as well.

00:07Shiv Sena workers vandalized a hotel in Mumbai where comedian Kunal Kamra known for his stand

00:13up shows was recorded and demanding apology for his remarks on Maharashtra's Deputy Chief

00:21Minister Eknath Shinde.

00:22A case has been filed over the remarks.

00:25Senior Shiv Sena leader threatens to thrash the comedian.

00:29Shiv Sena workers vandalized the show venue, Uddhav Sena condemning the attack.

00:33Here's what's happening in Mumbai, in Maharashtra.

01:29Vidya, what exactly happened, tell us more and the details that are coming in, in this

01:45case.

01:46Well, what we have gotten to know is that there is this hotel in Khar, where this entire

01:51incident of, you know, Kunal Kamra conducting a show had come to the fore and, you know,

02:00of course, you know, he made a comment on the Deputy Chief Minister, which the Shiv

02:05Sena did not really like, did not find it of a good taste and that's one of the reasons

02:09why Shiv Sena ransacked the hotel where this entire incident had happened.

02:15Remember, this is also the place where, you know, sometime back, the latent show, if you

02:22remember, that India's Got Latent show had been shot, this is also because it's the same

02:27building where this entire incident has happened.

02:30And also, immediately after the incident, the police got into action.

02:35They have promised to take action against those who have ransacked this entire hotel.

02:39At this juncture, though, no one has been arrested according to what we have gotten

02:43to know.

02:44Vidya, please stay on, we have one more reaction coming in, let's listen into that as well.

03:14Alright, so this is what is happening.

03:42This is the situation, we are told that deployment has happened there on the ground as well.

03:48Vidya joins me for the latest on this.

03:51Vidya, so I believe I can see that the visuals of perhaps heightened deployment on this,

03:57any word from Kunal Kamra yet?

04:01And clearly, law and order and heightened tensions and tempers, a big highlight these

04:07days in Maharashtra.

04:09Of course, you know, though this is not the first time, any moment we have seen, there

04:14have been instances where chauvinists have ransacked the hotels, offices or, you know,

04:21if there's been a comment that they find not to be in good faith against their own leader.

04:27So this is one of the, in the series where we have seen that entire hotel, where this

04:32entire shoot of Kunal Kamra's show was happening, that there, that was ransacked and as of now,

04:39though Kunal Kamra has not yet reacted, but, you know, Shiv Sainik's like, we have seen

04:45Sanjay Nirakam put out a tweet saying that at around 11 he'll be speaking against it

04:49and as he says, Kunal Kamra will be, you know, they'll, they'll speak, he'll speak a lot

04:56about him.

04:57So of course, you know, Shiv Sainik's not taking it down.

05:00They will be speaking against Kamra further, as we have seen earlier also, they do not

05:06let it go for many days until, you know, the police makes any arrest or anything like that.

05:12So this of course is not going to settle down soon and we will be seeing much activity happening

05:19around this incident.

05:20All right, Vidya, keep tracking the latest on that.

05:22So this is Fresh Rao, a comment that stand-up comedian, he's been, he's been in the controversy

05:28on different issues as well.

05:30This time over a comment he made on Deputy Chief Minister and has led to the vandalism

05:36at the venue where he used to perform.

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