Birds of feather...Shiv Sena supporters hold a bike rally in Maharashtra's Omerga in support of party MP Ravindra Gaikwad.

To contextualise this, the 57-year-old MP had on Thursday allegedly abused and assaulted a 60-year-old duty manager of Air India with slippers at least 25 times, for not being able to fly business class since the flight was an all-economy Pune-New Delhi.

The Lok Sabha member who represents Osmanabad had told PTI that he was asked by a senior Sena leader not to speak with the media over the issue till Wednesday March 29.

Meanwhile, the MP's supporters have called for a bandh at Osmanabad tomorrow against 'humiliation' of their leader over the AI staffer assault incident."