BJP’s Somaiya files defamation suit against Sena mouthpiece

 Kirit Somaiya, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Mumbai North-East, on Friday filed a defamation suit against Shiv Sena mouthpiece `Saamana’, its editor and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut and printer-publisher Rajendra Bhagwat for carrying articles allegedly tarnishing his image.

Somaiya has demanded Rs 1 crore in damages. 

He has also made Kalpana Inamdar, who, at a press conference, had made some allegations against Somaiya which the Saamana articles carried, a defendant in his suit which would come up before the Bombay high court in due course.