Union minister and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari Wednesday expressed anger over some people raising slogans at a public meeting here in support of a separate Vidarbha state and threatened to get them "spanked and thrown out" from the event.
Gadkari lost his cool when some people raised the slogans during his speech at the meeting, which was also attended by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, among others.
When Gadkari started speaking, some pro-Vidarbha activists sitting in the crowd began raising slogans, demanding statehood for the region in eastern Maharashtra.
They also threw pamphlets in the media enclosure.
Irked over the shouting of slogans for a separate Vidarbha state, Gadkari asked them to keep quiet.
Thereafter, the Union minister said, "If they make noise again, spank them, remember stop shouting or all of you will be spanked and thrown out. Take them all out."