Mumbai, July 8 -- NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) MLA Rohit Pawar on Wednesday strongly condemned the alleged assault on doctors and nurses at Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) Hospital in Shastrinagar, demanding the immediate arrest of the accused and alleging that the police and the state government were attempting to shield those linked to the ruling dispensation.

After meeting the injured doctors and hospital staff, Pawar warned that if the prime accused, Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre, was not arrested by the evening, protests would be launched.

Speaking to ANI, Pawar said, "What they did was absolutely wrong. They should be sent to jail. They assaulted a female doctor and a nurse, and one doctor's condition is serious. T...