Sat, Feb 2 12:25 PM
New Delhi: Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has launched a scathing attack on non-Maharashtrians living in Maharashtra.
This time he targeted close friend and Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan. At a meeting in Mumbai on Friday, Raj made a passing reference to the superstar, accusing him of not doing enough for Maharashtra, despite being a resident.
He alleged Bachchan was loyal only to his home state Uttar Pradesh. Raj also accused Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad of working only for the benefit of his own community.
Thackeray has criticised actor Amitabh Bachchan for being a UP loyalist.
"When Amitabh had to contest elections, he chose Allahbad.Why didn't he choose Mumbai? He even chose to be the brand ambassador of Uttar Pradesh," said Thackeray.
At a meeting in Mumbai on Friday he even mimicked the Railway Minister in his speech and accused Lalu Prasad of working only for the benefit of his own community.
"Laloo Prasad says that Raj Thackeray is trying to divide the country. How can he say that when he himself favours the Biharis in the Railways?"
Meanwhile, a complaint case was filed on Friday before a local court against Raj Thackeray for allegedly issuing provocative statements.
The case was filed before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate R P Singh under sections 153 and 153 A of the IPC for ''making provocative statements with intention to cause riot and promoting enmity between classes''.
Under both the cognizable offences, imprisonment varies between six months to three years. Section 153 is bailable but section 153 A is not.
The case had been filed by one Shashi Kumar Pandey and the matter will be heard on February 5.
The complaint also included the fact that Thackeray had dubbed the offerings made to the Sun God during 'Chhath' festival in Mumbai, as a 'drama' of the people of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
A resident of Patna, Vidya Kumari too filed a complaint against the leader in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate. She filed the complaint under the IPC charging him with sedition, disrupting public harmony and outraging religious feeling of people.
In her complaint, Vidya has said that she was shocked to hear statement made by Raj Thackeray on television on January 31, which hurt her religious and cultural feelings.
Political parties had reacted sharply to Thackeray's statement and several of them had burnt his effigy in Patna on Friday.
It seems that Thackeray is now playing the Marathi plank following in the footsteps of his uncle, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.
(With agency inputs)
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