MNS workers seen attempting to dig up a road outside Mantralaya in Mumbai (Photo: India Today TV grab)

Workers of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena dug up a road in front of Mumbai's Mantralaya, which houses the administrative headquarters of the Maharashtra state government.

The workers, the party said, were protesting the condition of roads in Mumbai and the recent spate of deaths attributed to potholes present on the city's roads.

In a video released by the MNS, the workers were seen hacking away at a road and the footpath that runs alongside it with pickaxes and shovels.

The party called its act the 'new surgical strike'. Eight party workers involved in the 'strike' were arrested by the Mumbai Police.

Rupesh Ovlekar of the MNS's workers' union who led the group of workers that attempted to dig up the road was among those arrested.

The incident outside Mantralaya came close on the heels of the MNS vandalising a Public Works Department office in Mumbai over the issue of pothole deaths.

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