The Ambernath police booked an Aurangabad-based rapper, Raj Mungase, for his alleged defamatory song attacking the BJP-Shinde Sena government. His song, uploaded recently, made references to ‘50 khoke, Surat, Guwahati and Goa’. Just a day before the complaint was lodged, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had faced heat from Thackeray Sena after the rival Sena allegedly assaulted its female worker over a social media post against some ruling leaders.
 
Mungase, a resident of Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar), uploaded the video, titled ‘Chor|50 khokhe ekdum ok’ on March 25. With references to Surat, Guwahati and Goa, the song is alleged to have made attacks on the formation of the current Shiv Sena-BJP government.

After the rebellion in the Shiv Sena in June last year, the MLAs supporting Eknath Shinde were first moved to Surat in the neighbouring Gujarat state. Thereafter, they were flown to Guwahati in Assam. On their way back to Mumbai, they made a stop in Goa. The khokha (crore) reference is believed to be on the Thackeray Sena’s allegation that the rival Sena, led by Chief Minister Shinde, had accepted crores of rupees to topple the MVA government and form an alliance with the BJP to come to power.