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After one more fresh attack on North Indians by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray in Mumbai, state Police on Sunday said that they may take legal action against him.

Congress and BJP claimed that his remarks were “objectionable” and have no place in country’s polity, referring to which Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor told in Mumbai, “We are going through the transcripts and if we find any provocative content in it, we will refer it to a legal team. Based on their advice, we may also initiate fresh legal action against Raj.”

On Saturday, Thackeray attacked North Indians for trying to “invade” Marathi culture and dared the government to arrest him for making the statement while giving a speech in Mumbai.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh termed Raj’s remarks as “objectionable” and said the police would do the needful.

“Shiva, Parvathi, Ganesh, are all members of the same family. Nobody should be allowed to indulge in politics of breaking the family”, BJP chief Rajnath Singh said.

Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh also accused Congress of supporting Raj.

‘I am convinced that many ministers in Maharashtra government are behind Raj’s attack against North Indians’, he alleged. “They are using Raj as their means to put up their agenda”, Singh said.

Raj Thackray had led a violent anti-North Indian campaign in February and was arrested on charges of inciting people, as the party had allegedly been behind the creation of Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

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After having made the Central Bharatiya Janata Party leadership agree to his demands, BJP leader Gopinath Munde met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray again late on Thursday night and sought his “blessings”.

Munde has returned to Mumbai from Delhi after meeting the top BJP leaders including LK Advani and Rajnath Singh. After coming back Munde meets Thackray at his residence during which the Shiv Sena leader wished him all success.

Earlier Munde met Thackray three days back before going to Delhi. Thackray supported Munde on the issue of Munde’s resignation. Munde who was not satisfied with party functioning has resigned from all the party posts on Sunday and expressed his displeasure over the appointment of Madhu Chavan as the new president of Mumbai BJP unit. Later after meeting with senior leaders in Delhi he cancelled his resignation where he was assured that his conditions will be taken care.

Thackeray in an editorial in Sena paper Samna had expressed his support for Munde, but also advised him to “look back” before taking any step forward.

After the BJP leadership agreed to concede to Munde’s demands, Thackeray in another editorial on Thursday praised him for making the BJP top brass “buckle” and also for bringing in democracy in the party.

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Maharashtra Navnirmaan Sena (MNS) chief, Raj Thackeray announced that he will not allow celebrating Uttar Pradesh Day in Maharashtra. He also warned that his party will not entertain ”political goondaism” of North Indians in Maharashtra.

Justifying his acts Raj has compared his party with Mahatma Gandhi and Late hero Bhagat Singh and said that they had also broken the law.

Thackeray said in an interview to Marathi weekly Lokprabha ”No programme like UP Day, which shows North Indians poltical goondaism will be allowed to take place here we will first request them with folded hands. If that does not work, we will take them with open hands.”

He did not subscribe to the view that his party’s anti-North Indians campaign was unconstitutional.

”One must follow the basic principles of Constitution. But its issues keep changing. Don’t we revise the Constitution? The issues which are seen now were non-existent during creation of constitution” Thackeray said.

Giving example of third President of America, Thomas Jefferson’s quote ”Hasn’t somebody said that every generation has its constitution?” Raj has justified himself. But he forget that Thomas Jefferson have given equal rights to all while drafting Declaration of Independence of Constitution.

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