India, July 7 -- Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday apologised to and washed the feet of the tribal labourer who was urinated upon by another man in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district, a day after opposition parties and tribal bodies held massive protests across the poll-bound state.

In a viral video that surfaced on Tuesday -- the event dates back to 2020 -- 30-year-old Pravesh Shukla was seen smoking a cigarette while urinating on Dashmat Rawat, a Kol tribal from Sidhi, who was sitting on the ground. The video triggered a political row in the state where elections are due later this year. Shukla, whom the opposition claimed had links to the Bharatiya Janata Party, was arrested under the stringent National Secu...