Bags Of Mallikarjun Kharge, Nana Patole, Uddhav Thackeray Checked Amid Luggage Row

The bags of Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray bags were checked twice in one day - in Shrigonda and Newasa in Ahmednagar district - according to videos released by his team.

Amid a controversy over the luggage of opposition leaders being examined, the bags of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, the party's Maharashtra President Nana Patole and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray were checked by Election Commission (EC) officials in the poll-bound state on Thursday. #WATCH | #MaharashtraElection2024 | Bags of Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge were checked by the Election Commission as his helicopter landed in Nashik pic.twitter.com/NlsgmanIyO #WATCH | Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole's helicopter and bags were checked by an election official today. The helicopter was checked at Tiroda helipad while Patole was going to campaign for an NCP-SCP candidate in Goregaon Assembly constituency(Source: Congress) pic.twitter.com/pt7oSSJ0vt

This is the first time during the campaign for the Maharashtra elections that Mr Kharge and Mr Patole's bags were checked by polling officials. A video shared by news agency ANI shows Mr Kharge's staff opening his bags for polling officials to take a look inside them in Nashik.

Mr Patole's luggage was also checked in a similar manner at the Tiroda helipad in Gondia district, when he was on his way to campaign for a Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate in the Goregaon assembly constituency.