Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil's son Sujay Vikhe Patil had earlier resigned from the Congress to join BJP on the denial of the ticket from the Ahmednagar constituency.
Arnab slammed the comment "It is an era of freebies" and stated that India has stated through votes that it is an era of aspirations, ambition, merit and not freebies.
Changing the ethnicities and identities of a highly publicised crime only reeks of narrow political agenda, an agenda which is dangerously partial and divisive.