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Pune, Mar 5:
In an apparent bid to recapture his party's Marathi sons plank being hijacked by MNS leader Raj Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday targeted Biharis saying they were an "unwanted lot" in all parts of the country.
"They are not wanted in Southern India, Assam and also Punjab and Chandigarh. The Biharis have antagonised local population wherever they had settled. The UP-Bihari MPs have shown their ingratitude towards Mumbai and Maharashtra with an anti-Marathi tirade in Parliament," Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Samana.
The "Bihari" leaders, accusing people of Mumbai of harbouring anti-national sentiments are trying to stir again the fire of anti-north Indian feelings in Maharashtra and should realise that the exercise would only put their brethren in Maharashtra at the receiving end, Thackeray said in a veiled suggestion of a backlash.
MPs from Bihar and UP had raised the issue of anti- north Indian stand of MNS, that led to wide spread violence in Maharashtra.
The arrest of Raj Thackeray following his anti-north Indian sentiments last month had put the Shiv Sena in a difficult spot as the breakaway faction led by the nephew of the Sena chief appeared to be drawing political mileage in the state at the cost of the parent party.
Sena executive President Uddhav Thackeray recently asserted that it was only his party that was wedded to the cause of Marathis and nobody else.
Referring to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, whom he had earlier dared to perform Chhatpooja in Mumbai, the Sena leader in his editorial, said those who have turned Bihar into a hell should not try to teach nationalism to Mumbai and Maharashtra.
Thackeray's comments came even as the Maharashtra police served a show cause notice to Raj Thackeray asking him to explain as to why the gag order enforced on him following the party's anti-north Indian agitation should not be extended.
The MNS leader was in Pune when the notice was served at his Mumbai residence on Tuesday
Patil: No one can evict people from M' rashtra
New Delhi: Under attack for the state government's perceived inaction against the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena harassing people from elsewhere in Mumbai, the Centre on Tuesday said it would make the state administration move promptly to arrest the trend.
Replying to a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the breakaway Sena faction leader Raj Thackeray's ouster call against north Indians, home minister Shivraj Patil on Tuesday made it clear that the Maharashtra government would be compelled to get tough with those challenging the fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. "If the Maharashtra government does not act, we will tell them; we will not just tell but also keep a watch on what they do," Patil said.
He said that the Centre was determined not to allow any individual to evict people from a city. Patil's censure of the state government seemed to be a response to the complaint lodged by some UPA constituents against the Vilasrao Deshmukh regime to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi last week.
Intimating the House over the action taken by the state government to curb the violence against non-Maharashtrians, the home minister said while around 300 cases have been registered, preventive action has been taken against 5,000 persons. In context of railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadav' plans to perform the Chhath Puja in Mumbai in response to the tirade against Biharis launched by MNS leader Raj Thackeray, the home minister said that there was no ban on any festival in Maharashtra.
Arrest warrant against Raj Thackeray
Jamshepur: A local court here on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged provocative statement against Bihari community two months ago. The arrest warrant was issued by first class judicial magistrate D C Awasthi after Thackeray failed to appear before the court in connection with the case.
Advocate Sudhir Kumar Pappu, who is also the spokesman of Rashtriya Janata Dal's East Singhbhum district committee, in his petition said that Thackeray's statement against non-Maharashtrians, particularly the Biharis, was not only objectionable but also a deliberate attempt to flare up regionalism and casteism in the country.
Earlier a summon was issued against Thackeray at his Mumbai residence by the court on April 19. The petition was filed in the court of chief judicial magistrate, P K Moitra in March and the case was transferred to the court of the first class judicial magistrate later.
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