Shiv Sena men would have made 'tandoori' of Azmi: Bal Thackeray
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MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has held Samajwadi Party leader
Abu Asim Azmi "responsible" for Monday's mayhem in the Maharashtra
assembly and said his party men would have made a "tandoori" or roast
of somebody like Azmi for having hurt Marathi pride.
In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray said that
though elected from Maharashtra, Azmi took the oath as legislator in
Hindi and not Marathi, and therefore he was beaten by the Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (MNS) lawmakers.
Stressing that the Sena was born on the issue of Marathi pride,
Thackeray said in the past the Shiv Sena has carried out many such
campaigns against the use of Hindi and English in the state
legislature, especially by its senior member Diwakar Raote.
"If somebody like Azmi had come in Raote's hands, he would have made a
'tandoori' out of him, and removed his skin," the editorial declared.
"That (Marathi pride) has been the Shiv Sena's philosophy always and
would also remain in the future," he noted.
However, Thackeray lashed out at the MNS for the violent behaviour of
its legislators inside the assembly.
He said that nobody can support the violence and pandemonium created
by the MNS members in the assembly Monday.
"The proceedings of the assembly or parliament must be carried out as
per rules and decorum, it cannot be reduced to an 'akhada' (wrestling
pit) or a vegetable market."
Azmi was slapped and pushed by MNS legislators inside the assembly
Monday for flouting the party diktat of taking the oath as legislator
only in Marathi.
Reacting to Thackeray's views, Samajwadi Party state president Abu
Asim Azmi said that Bal Thackeray was "approaching the last stages of
his life and has lost his mental balance".
"In fact, despite all his efforts the Shiv Sena could not come to
power again and he is feeling very upset, so he talks anything," Azmi
said here Tuesday.
The Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine lost the
Maharashtra assembly elections held Oct 13.
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