New Delhi, Feb 9: After lying low for few days, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray hit out at north Indians yet again, this time targeting none other than Prime Minister Manmohan SIngh.

In an article published on Friday in a Maharashtra daily, Raj said when Manmohan Singh asked the French government to allow Sikh students to wear turbans in schools, no one called him communal.

Raj Thackeray also defends his statements and questions if Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi could take up the issue of Tamils living in Malaysia why couldn't the MNS chief speak for Maharashtrians.

"If the Prime Minister can rake up the issue of ban on turbans for the Sikhs in France when the French President came to India, if Karunanidhi could take up the issue of problems of Tamils in Malaysia with the Malaysian government, if the Hindi channels in Mumbai spew venom against Maharashtra while supporting the people from UP and Bihar, then how come I am dubbed as a 'goonda' when I speak about the self-respect of the state?"

The article that appears in Maharashtra Times quotes Thackeray as saying, "even if the whole world opposes my stand, I and my party will continue the struggle to protect Marathi culture, Maharashtrian people and will trample the goondaism of UP and Bihar."

The piece titled Majhi bhumika, majha ladha (My stand, my struggle) urges the Maharashtrians to stop "sitting on the fence" and urges them to "join the struggle."

Hitting out at Amitabh Bachchan yet again, Raj writes, "Amitabh calls himself Chora Ganga Kinarewala, yet the media does not call him a regionalist."

Raj doesn't spare the communists in West Bengal either in the scathing write-up. He says they launched an agitation after Saurav Ganguly was dropped from the Indian cricket team and are still called liberal and secular.