India, Oct. 12 -- A programme was organised by Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal in Kalyan on Saturday to felicitate Prakash Pagare, the 73-year old Congress worker from the suburb who was humiliated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers last month, and a video of the act was subsequently put up on social media. Sapkal expressed the party's goodwill towards Pagare by lifting him up on his shoulders, aided by two other Congress workers.

Local BJP workers had confronted Pagare on September 23 after he had posted a morphed picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X. The workers forcibly draped a new red saree around him, took a video of the incident, and released it on various social media platforms.

In his speech, Sap...