NAGPUR, July 9: The Nagpur unit of Shiv Sena will launch an indefinite satyagraha and chakka jam agitation within the next three days if `false' cases against district chief, Prakash Jadhav, and party treasurer, Ramesh Mishra, were not withdrawn immediately.

Jadhav and Mishra were arrested by the city police for ransacking the office of the Employment Exchange here recently. Both were sent to the Central Jail when they refused personal bail.

Issuing a press statement here, Lekhandas Wankhede, Katol Taluka chief of Shiv Sena, and Dinesh Hatwar, convenor of District Shiv Udyog Sena, alleged that when both the Sena leaders went to the local Employment Exchange office, along with a delegation to meet the Employment Exchange Officer, Pillewar, about the plight of project-affected unemployed youths, the officer behaved rudely with them.

The Sena leaders alleged that Employment Exchange personnel also manhandled their activists who went there along with Jadhav and Mishra. They alleged that Exchange personnel lodged false complaints against the Sena leaders.Wankhede and Hatwar, who hurriedly issued the press note here, however, failed to obtain signatures of other Sena leaders of Nagpur to bail out Jadhav and Mishra.The leaders also demanded an enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against the District Employment Exchange Officer for allegedly possessing huge properties.

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