Former MLA Baba Siddique shot dead in Mumbai’s Bandra; 2 shooters in police custody

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Mumbai: Former MLA Baba Siddique, a leader with the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was shot dead Saturday in Mumbais Bandra area...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde told reporters late Saturday night that two of the three persons who shot Siddique have been arrested..

Opposition politicians too condemned Siddiques death and cited the fatal attack to question the state of law and order in Maharashtra...

Anil Deshmukh, an MLA from the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), in a post on social media platform X wrote, The incident of senior leader, Baba Siddique being shot dead today is very shocking and raises serious questions about law and order in the state..

Baba Siddique resigned from the Congress in February this year and joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP..

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