‘We know how to drag Kunal Kamra out’: Maharashtra minister has ‘patience’ warning for Mumbai Police

As the Kunal Kamra row continues to escalate, Maharashtra tourism minister Shambhuraj Desai has asked the Mumbai Police to arrest the comedian and not test the patience of Shiv Sena workers.

Angered by the stand-up comedian's parody song allegedly targeting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde, Sena workers on Sunday night vandalised a studio in Mumbai where Kunal Kamra's show had been recorded.

Shambhuraj Desai said, “We have been asked by Shinde to observe restraint, that is why we are quiet. As Shiv Sena workers, we know how to drag him out from wherever he is hiding, but as ministers we have some restrictions.”

“We want to tell the police, do not test our patience and nab him from wherever he is, put him in a tyre and give him prasad,” the Shiv Sena-Shinde leader added.

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The word ‘prasad’ means an offering made to God, but it is also used as a euphemism for punishment.

During his latest show in Mumbai, Kunal Kamra sang a parody of a hit song from the film ‘Dil Toh Pagal Hai’ where he used the word ‘gaddar’ (traitor).

While he did not name Eknath Shinde, the Sena workers stormed The Habitat Comedy Club in Mumbai's Khar area and vandalised it.

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The Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders and its mouthpiece `Saamana' often term Eknath Shinde and his supporters, who rebelled against party chief Uddhav Thackeray in June 2022 and split the Shiv Sena, as traitors.

While some people were arrested for the act and later got bail, the Khar police subsequently registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Kunal Kamra on a complaint of Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel for allegedly making defamatory remarks against Shinde. Police have asked him to join the probe.

(With agency inputs)