vIndianz.com (3 Feb, 2010) — Mumbai: Shiv Sena supremo Bal Tackeray on Wednesday stepped up his attack on Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi on the “Mumbai for all Indians” remark, raking up Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin and calling Rahul a ‘frustrated bachelor’.
“Mumbai may belong to all Indians but how can it belong to an Italian mummy,” Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamna’.
“The ‘Prince of Congress’ is totally frustrated and it is in this frustration he has insulted Marathi people and Maharashtra,” he said according to Indian media.
The Sena leader said Mumbai was not a “dharamshala” (guest house) of the country that “anyone comes to Mumbai, spits here and leaves.”
Referring to the 105 people killed during the Sanyukta Maharashtra Movement dating back to the 1920s, he said, “Have 105 martyrs sacrificed their lives so that Mumbai becomes a dharamshala”.
“I am really not interested in what Bal Thackeray or Raj Thackeray have to say. Frankly, I am interested in one concept that India belongs to Indians and every part of India belongs to every Indian”, he had said at a press conference in Patna on Tuesday.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had launched his Mission Bihar early this week by declaring that Biharis were in several ways “running the country”, and reminding the Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray that the battle for Mumbai on 26/11 was fought and won by commandos from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
“MNS leader Raj Thackeray keeps talking about driving out people of Bihar and UP from Mumbai. But I want to ask who the NSG commandos were. Most of them were from Bihar, UP and other parts of the country,” Rahul told Youth Congress workers at Kalchakra Maidan in Bodhgaya on Monday. Rahul wondered why the Thackerays hadn’t spoken of forcing out Biharis from Mumbai when they were fighting the terrorists who had attacked the city. “When people from all corners of the country can stand up to save Mumbai, they have every right over the city,” he said.
Earlier, interacting with students of LN Mishra University at Darbhanga, he said: “Most senior IAS and IPS officers come from UP and Bihar. In a way, Biharis are running the country, but I wonder why Bihar is not running.”
Further Reading- Mumbai for all: RSS
- NCP candidate defeats Sena man, win gives a boost to Ajit Pawar – Hindustan Times
- SRK stands by his IPL remarks
- Balasaheb has a busy birthday – Times of India
- Shiv Sena wins over MNS in Mumbai University Senate – NDTV.com
- Sena, RPI alliance likely – Indian Express
- Thackeray targets Pawar et al
- Gopinath Munde meets Uddhav Thackeray amid speculations of quitting BJP – Daily News & Analysis
- Raj comes to uncle Thackeray’s rescue after Ajit attack – Times of India
- Bal Thackeray grandson booked after bar raid – Times of India
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