Shiv Sena members on Tuesday warned Abu Asim Azmi, Member of Legislative Assembly from Samajwadi Party, against making remarks about Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray on Friday attributed the party's poor show in the Maharashtra assembly polls on the young generation's 'ignorance about the travails' the party has gone through for the state. "The young generation is a stranger to the history of Maharashtra and the Sena's fight for the Marathi cause. They have ruined Marathi unity in just a day," Thackeray rued in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
In a veiled attack on estranged nephew and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said, "People of Maharashtra should show those trying to divide Marathi votes, their proper place."
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday flayed tennis star Sania Mirza for her decision to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, saying "had Sania's heart been Indian, it wouldn't have beaten for a Pakistani."
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday described Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray as the new Mohammad Ali Jinnah and said his estranged nephew was intent on dividing Marathi people.
Faced with in-house demand for change of leadership, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said he will expand his cabinet soon.
The Shiv Sena today dared the government to arrest party chief Bal Thackeray after a non-bailable arrest warrant was issued by a Bihar court against the Sena supremo for allegedly making uncharitable and inflammatory remarks against Biharis in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
The Shiv Sena today said it had not yet received a copy of the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by a Bihar court against party supremo Bal Thackeray for allegedly making uncharitable and inflammatory remarks against Biharis in party mouthpiece Saamana.
Scores of people, claiming to be Shah Rukh Khan fans, on Friday held a protest in central Delhi against the Shiv Sena for targeting the actor. Shouting slogans, the protesters, led by local Member of Legislative Assembly Shoaib Iqbal gathered near Delite cinema in Daryaganj and burnt the effigies of Sena leaders Bal Thackeray and his son Uddhav. Shiv Sena had on Thursday threatened it will not allow the screening of the film in cinemas and multiplexes in the National Capital.
Attacking Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for the first time after being expelled from the party, Amar Singh virtually dubbed him as a "green snake in the grass" for Muslims, on Thursday. "I don't support Kalyan Singh ideologically, but personally feel he is better than Mulayam Singh Yadav. At least people like Kalyan and Bal Thackeray openly attack Muslims."
Denying charges that Madarasas were terror hubs, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind General Secretary Maulana Hakimuddin Qasmi has said that Darul Uloom or any Madarasa in the country never harboured terror activities.
In controversial remarks, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Wednesday advocated the creation of "Hindu suicide squads" to fight the scourge of "Islamic terrorism." The remarks immediately drew sharp condemnation from the ally BJP which said Thackeray must behave responsibly.
Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka over the border row, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday said Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is heaping 'grave atrocities' on Marathi people in the neighbouring state."Marathis are being assaulted with sticks and guns and beaten up like cattle. If the Karnataka government wants to display its masochism by attacking Marathi people, it should remember that Maharashtra is land of Shivaji Maharaj," fumed Thackeray.
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and the MNS for their tirade against people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Latching on to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark that the threat of COVID-19 still persists, Raut said in view of the health concern, it is Thackeray's responsibility to take care of people's safety, and the governor should have rather appreciated the chief minister for doing so diligently.
Slamming the Centre for 'not making any serious attempt' to stop racist attacks on Indians in Australia, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday warned against allowing cricketers from that country to play in the third season of IPL beginning in March. "Our warning to the government is still there. We will not allow Australian cricketers to play here in the wake of racist attacks on Indians down under," Thackeray said.
In the wake of a spate of attacks on Indians in Australia, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday said his party will not allow the Down Under team to play cricket in Maharashtra. Expressing anguish over the violence against Indians in Australia, Thackeray said, "Our boys are being stabbed, burnt and shot at in that country and still our cricketers have no qualms in playing with them. Do they have any national pride?"
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who underwent an angioplasty at a suburban hospital in Mumbai on Tuesday, is stable and will be in the Intensive Care Unit till Thursday. Thackeray, 83, will be in the ICU for one more day and will be shifted on Thursday to a special room, where he will be under observation for two more days before he is discharged. Thackeray was admitted to the private hospital on Monday and underwent an angioplasty.
The foundation day function of the Shiv Sena, which completes 43 years on Friday, has been called off apparently due to hospitalisation of its chief Bal Thackeray, party sources said.
He said last-minute decisions by the Narendra Modi government with an eye on polls will not be helpful in swaying the mood of the electorates.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said on Wednesday that he saluted the patriotic spirit of Muslim body Islam Gymkhana for deciding to terminate the services of Abbas Kazmi as its trustee for defending Mumbai attacks terrorist Ajmal Kasab.
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday claimed there was a threat to the life of party Member of Legislative Assembly Abu Asim Azmi, who was assaulted by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members in the Maharashtra assembly for taking oath in Hindi defying Raj Thackeray's diktat.
Former Union Finance Minister C D Deshmukh was the only Marathi leader in New Delhi with self-respect, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said.
Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray has equated nephew Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with a carbon copy of the outfit he founded in 1966.
For a three-year-old party to diminish the aura surrounding a four-decade-old outfit that has been synonymous with Marathi pride so far, was a mammoth task but Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navanirman Sena did just that. The MNS dashed the hopes of Raj's estranged cousin and Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav, who has to carry forward his father Bal Thackeray's legacy, by bagging 13 seats in their maiden assembly poll foray.
The clash between SP and MNS activists in Mumbai took place before the start of the rally at Shivaji Park, where top leaders of UNPA were due to speak.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday criticised Anjali Waghmare, appointed by the government to defend Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Kasab, saying it was "shameful" on her part to appear on behalf of a terrorist.
Maharashtra BJP chief spokesperson Keshav Upadhye said there was no political angle to the meeting. "Raut wanted to interview Fadnavis for (the Sena mouthpiece) Saamana and this meeting was to discuss how to go about it," he tweeted.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who underwent treatment for weakness and fever at the Lilavati hospital, has recovered completely and is likely to be discharged tomorrow, doctors attending on him said today.
Against the backdrop of some strains between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the general elections, Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today refused to meet the saffron party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani who was in Mumbai in connection with a party function.
Australian players can play in the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after all.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has demanded building of a 'Amarnath House' or 'Vaishnodevi House' for Hindus on the lines of 'Haj House' in Mumbai for Muslims.
Virtually conceding that his party was whittling down its agitation against Shah Rukh Khan and his latest film My Name is Khan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday said "those who want to see the film could do so."
The Congress on Monday refused to read any political overtures in the meeting between its ally Nationalist Congress Party's chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray in Mumbai, saying it was to ensure the conduct of a hassle-free IPL. Asked whether Pawar's meeting with Thackeray was a snub to the Congress, party spokesperson Abhishekh Manu Singhvi said, "Pawar has met Thackeray to prevent the politics of disruption in cricketing matters."
"I think what I said has been misconstrued. I am pro good relationship with countries. I am not pro some other country and not my own country. How is it possible?," he told media persons outside the airport on his arrival from London amid tight security.
"I think what I said has been misconstrued. I am pro good relationship with countries. I am not pro some other country and not my own country. How is it possible?," he told media persons outside the airport on his arrival from London amid tight security.
'Let Shah Rukh release the film with the blessings of the Italian woman (Sonia Gandhi) and Yuvraj (Rahul Gandhi) without any protection and let it run in any theatre anywhere in the country. Sena will not oppose it,' Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.
In a snub to Shiv Sena, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi hopped on to two suburban trains on Friday throwing caution to wind in the wake of security threat to make a last minute detour through Sena bastions during his brief visit to this metropolis.
Bachchan agreed to be a brand ambassador for Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Gujarat this week and blogged appreciatively about state Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Thursday asked party members to show black flags to Rahul Gandhi, during his visit to Mumbai on Friday, to protest the Congress leader's 'Mumbai for all' comment. Thackeray has asked Sena workers to show black flags to Rahul during his visit to the city, said senior party leader Sanjay Raut. The directive from Thackeray has come at a time when there has been a war of words between the Sena and the Congress over the migrant issue.
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