Overview

• On July 28, three MNS workers confronted and assaulted Siddharth Singh Chandel, director of the Siddhartha Logic coaching centre in Kalyan, over allegations of charging high fees without holding classes.
• A viral video from July 29 shows MNS Kalyan president Ulhas Bhoir slapping a Thane gaming zone employee for allowing uniformed students to play during school hours and warning of demolished premises.
• Both assaults were filmed by onlookers, yet local police have made no arrests or filed charges against the party workers involved.
• Raj Thackeray has publicly defended and praised the attacks as justified moral enforcement, warning of further violence if he is criticized.
• The surge in vigilante violence reflects MNS’s use of moral policing to galvanize Marathi identity ahead of municipal elections.