'I don't think such a meeting ever happened... I don't see how it is even possible without people coming to know immediately,' says Julio Ribeiro.
Terming reservations in private sector as a 'new form of slavery', Shiv Sena on Thursday said it won't serve any social cause but will appease the 'politics of vote'.
Hand over cricket bats, balls to Indian soldiers, its mouthpiece Saamna said.
The former BCCI secretary said the Mumbai underworld don was introduced to the team as an industrialist.
'Sonia took Rajiv to Sicily island for their safety when India was fighting the war with Pakistan in 1971,' the Shiv Sena chief told party mouthpiece Saamna in Mumbai.
The Shiv Sena chief's hard-hitting response came after Samajwadi Party leaders threatened to `break the hand' that is raised against people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
"The fact is a Maratha from Maharashtra has become slave of a foreign lady. At least Maratha leaders should not do that,' he said.
The Sena chief blamed the divestment policy of the NDA regime for its poor showing in the Lok Sabha election.
'The Sena is always ready for any and every eventuality.'
'Whenever he speaks in the Rajya Sabha, he entertains the members,' the Sena chief said.
He did a volte-face on his stand against the Muslim community and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
It also lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying "running a nation is not a child's play."
"I have decided not to shave off the beard till we win the assembly elections in Maharashtra," the Shiv Sena chief has said.
Sena leader Sanjay Raut said he will meet Mukherjee next week, insisting he has proved to be "best President" and that nobody can doubt his capabilities.
Sena slammed the cultural affairs minister Vinod Tawde for redefining the 'prime-time' for screening of Marathi films in multiplexes.
'Muslims have been exploited for 65 years. They have been reduced to a community of committees and commissions. Nothing happens. Since 1947 they are worse than Dalits.' 'Muslims voted en-bloc once upon a time. Not now. Muslims are fragmented everywhere. They have the same choices as the Hindus in that area.' 'Muslims are not alienated. The alienation is between the haves and have-nots. Poverty in India has both Hindus and Muslims.'
A day after the high decibel campaign for Maharashtra assembly polls ended, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on its former ally the Bharatiya Janata Party, deeming it as "hungry for power" even as it likened the Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party to "dead snakes".
'It wasn't as if the senior police inspectors in charge of the police stations were not aware of the communal tension that was being created in their areas before and during the riots.' 'Yet they chose not to act,' recalls Jyoti Punwani.
Sena further said that accusations against the ministers shows that "politics is being played to put a halt to their ambitions".
With several suspected terrorist being nabbed in the state for alleged links with ISIS, the Shiv Sena on Monday urged the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Government to make proactive efforts to curb the expansion of the deadly terror outfit.
Modi should reveal his 'Mann Ki Baat' on the contentious issue of Ram temple in Ayodhya, said Sena in Saamna
By the next election, the Shiv Sena too may end up like Raj Thackeray's MNS.
'I am trying to make the political system more answerable to the people.'
'The BJP strongly believes that we are all Indians, and everyone enjoys the same rights.'
Modi's plain-talk on zero tolerance against religious discrimination applies to those who convert tribal and poor Hindus "by deception".
The Shiv Sena has particularly been upset with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has repeatedly attacked him.
BJP ally says common man will respond appropriately if promises made are not fulfilled.
Shiv Sena attacked Shobhaa De, saying had Bal Thackeray not done 'dadagiri' to preserve Marathi culture, her forefathers would "have been born in Pakistan" and she would have "attended Page-3 parties in a burqa".
"The real threat to the country comes not from fanatic and extremist Muslims, but from people like Sudheendra Kulkarni," it said in its editorial.
'For the Shiv Sena, Hindutva is like a shawl which can be put on and discarded at will.'
"China's ideology seems to be eliminating terrorism from its country but letting terrorist activities flourish in India," the Sena said.
'Nothing will change in the richest municipal corporation in the country.' 'New faces with the same surnames will get party tickets.' 'So the same order, the same money spending systems, will continue.'
Shiv Sena said 'commodifying' yoga will not harm the ancient practice, instead it will increase tourism and generate employment.
In its mouthpiece, Saamna, the Sena said that the veteran's comments about the Emergency cannot be ignored.
Shiv Sena on Monday ruled out rapprochement with former ally Bharatiya Janata Party saying the ruling party has "shattered the hopes of the people" after what transpired during the trust vote in Maharashtra assembly.
In an apparent attempt to cosy up with the Congress, the Shiv Sena has cautioned the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party government against preparing to win the next trust vote by suspending Congress legislators.
Ahead of the crucial trust vote in the Maharashtra assembly, the Shiv Sena has come out in the open criticising their former ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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