Five Maharashtra MLAs suspended

The Maharashtra legislature on Wednesday suspended five of its members, including one each from the BJP, Shiv Sena and MNS, for assaulting a police officer within the legislature premises. Parliamentary affairs minister Harshwardhan Patil announced the suspension of the five legislators from the house till the end of the year. They five are Independent legislators Kshitij Thakur and Pradeep Jaiswal, Shiv Sena’s Rajan Salvi, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) Ram Kadam and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Jaykumar Rawal. The five assaulted Assistant Police Inspector (Traffic) Sachin Suryawanshi of Worli police station on Tuesday.