Thackeray alleges strikes to undermine Mumbai’s significance, urges SC to behave

In a veiled swipe on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, 13 August, alleged that concerted efforts have been below method to erode the importance of Mumbai and Maharashtra.

Talking on the sixty fifth basis day of Marmik — the journal based in 1966 by his father, Bal Thackeray, and uncle, Shrikant Thackeray — the previous chief minister warned towards makes an attempt to marginalise the “Marathi manoos” and alter town’s character.

“Earlier than the undivided Shiv Sena was shaped, the Marathi manoos was handled as an outsider. Efforts are being made to recreate these circumstances — whether or not by means of the imposition of Hindi or by diminishing the significance of Mumbai and Maharashtra. These makes an attempt haven’t stopped,” he mentioned.

Thackeray vowed that the work of the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Marmik would proceed “till those that take pleasure in such efforts are defeated.”

He additionally accused political rivals of making distractions by means of trivial controversies — citing debates over feeding pigeons and a current Supreme Court docket directive on stray canines — to divert public consideration from urgent points.