A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray taunted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the latter’s ineffectual ‘Hindutva’ at a Mumbai rally, BJP Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis hit back stating that Mr. Thackeray spoke in the Congress’ voice and that the CM’s late father, Sena founder Bal Thackeray, could never have imagined that reciting Hanuman Chalisa would tantamount to sedition in his son’s regime.
Riposting Mr. Thackeray’s jibes at the BJP, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr. Fadnavis, who addressed the ‘Hindi Bhashik Sammelan’ at Goregaon in Mumbai on Sunday evening, reiterated his charge of the Sena-controlled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) being a hotbed of corruption.
The ‘Hindi Bhashik Sammelan’ at Goregaon saw the participation of social outfits from the Hindi-speaking belt of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh and the function pointedly began with a collective recital of the Hanuman Chalisa.
